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Content levels
ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageStrong
Trigger warnings
WarViolenceDeathPTSDAlienation
Positive tags
SurvivalSelf-Discovery
Tropes
Time TravelFish out of WaterWarReluctant HeroFirst Contact
Themes
War and Its ConsequencesIsolationTime DilationIdentityDehumanizationFutility of WarCulture Shock
Synopsis
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
Tags
Military Science FictionSpace OperaHard Science FictionSocial SF