Forever Free

By: Joe Haldeman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

From Joe Haldeman, the all-time master of military science fiction, comes the new novel set in the universe of his Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic The Forever War.

An epic story about war, peace, and the price of freedom, Forever Free reintroduces listeners to William Mandella - who has been living peacefully on the planet called Middle Finger, a refuge for humans who refuse to become part of the group mind known as Man. But after decades of this peace, Mandella and others are tired of living like zoo animals. So they steal a starship - and embark upon a voyage that will forever change their understanding of the universe, and themselves.

©1999 Joe Haldeman (P)2016 Recorded Books

Awful Ending

there's the beginning of a story then an abrupt end completely out of left field as though the author just got bored of writing. They meet God and God says "yeah I did everything, bye"

Different direction from Forever War

Forever War was a sprawling political war epic in the tradition of Robert Heinlein. Forever Free is at once a smaller, personal story that, by the end, seems like a cosmic tale concocted by Aasimov, Clarke and Dick while sitting at a cafe with Serling in the Twilight Zone.

Literal Deus ex Machina

A Literal Deus ex Machina - interesting premise, but author undermines it through lazy plot devices. A very far cry from the genius of the Forever War.

great book not so great narration

If you can vet past the narrator its a decent book. preferred the firat book overall.

Explosive & messy ending.

The Forever War is an amazing piece of science fiction. It’s sequel; Forever Free… is not, the first 3 hours of this audiobook are decent. The book starts to drag towards its ending and then BOOM! Books over and the ending only slightly makes sense.

Spoilers below if you don’t want to waste a credit on this.
















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Vets are mad about the future and try to skip in time to the future.
While our motley crew of whoever’s and Mandella’s family comes back in from their extended stay out in space
Jesus comes back, raptures all of existence than kills some people, resurrects them 3 sentences later. Gets angry that his creations don’t like being terminated and has a tantrum then fucks off to who knows where…THE END.

The experiment begins with a bang, ends when God..

decides enough has been understood from the experiment of life, and intelligence.
When the elements created evolve the potentials for interesting possabilities the project gets interesting, but enough all ready. I'm done, the end.
Only the intelligences project an argument to let it be to continue.
OK, says the creator I'll let things run on without oversight;be back in a million years to see how you turn out.

Great Ending to Forever War!!!

Joe Haldeman is a great technical writer, describing the physics and theoretical physics well. The premise of traveling through time by approaching the speed of light is such an interesting take on time travel with actual science to back some of the fiction. I would recommend this to any sci-fi fan.

Good story unique premise

Loved the story and overall thought the book was great. I couldn’t stand the narrator.

Major Departure From Forever War

I liked the initial premise of the book, of escaping to the future, but it felt like things fell off the rails about halfway through. It went from looking like we would have an interesting extension of the themes from Forever War to a supernatural mystery quite abruptly. The overall story was….fine, which is about what I would say about the narration as well. He was easy to understand but nothing to write home about. It just left me wishing that George Wilson (Forever War, Forever Peace) had done this book as well.

Finally! It's on audio.

Love this book. I really miss the original speaker tho. So a little disappointing. Enjoy-tho!