Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
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Drafted into an elite military unit to fight an elusive alien species called the Taurans, physics student William Mandella experiences interstellar warfare governed by relativistic time dilation. As Mandella survives brief, brutal combat tours, centuries pass back on Earth, alienating him completely from the human society he is defending. The novel examines the futility of war and the disorienting effects of rapid cultural evolution.
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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.