It ’s nice to play out a shiny raw edition of a SF classic , as St. Martin ’s Press will of Joe Haldeman ’s 1974 smash The Forever War next March . Before the re - debut and related to ostentation can go on , though , NYTimes newsman and title - ruiner Dexter Filkins had the temerity to release his own spirited take on the global warfare on terror and give itthat same attention-getting title . When itappearedon the blanket of The New York Times Book Review in the first place this month , the news caused Haldemanto explodeon his SFF.net blog , “ see like a upright book . I wish they ’d fare up with their own fucking form of address . ” Equally humble , one of his SFF.net homies – NASA employee and gifted SF author in his own right Geoffrey Landis – had his friend ’s back , and fired offan wild letter to the Timesover the weekend . Is this the literary equivalent of Tupac and Biggie ? [ Joe Haldeman on SFFNet ]
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