Camouflage
by Joe Haldeman
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Author: Joe HaldemanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-26
ISBN: 0441012523
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ace
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Book Review: 2005 Nebula Award Winning Novel; Publ 2004, 289 pages, 4 stars
Summary: 4 Stars
The Nebula awards committee (SFWA) has become so heavily politicized over the past couple of decades, that I was surprised to see veteran science fiction writer, Joe Haldeman, win the 2005 Nebula award. Joe Haldeman is well known in science fiction circles for his absolute classic novel, The Forever War, and is also a Vietnam War veteran so he's able to write about the follies, atrocities, and fog of war from a first person perspective. However, reading the blurb on the book storyline, about two aliens on earth, a discovered alien artifact and the events surrounding them which are relatively familiar themes to those that read and watch science fiction, nothing jumped out as obviously political. In the novel Haldeman does write about the Bataan Death March, the march the Japanese forced captured American and other prisoners of war during World War II under heat, starvation, and other brutal conditions that lead to a considerable number of deaths. The Bataan Death March is a well documented and known WW II event to many Americans and is justifiably worthy to recant for those that are not too familiar with the events. What is disappointing is the usual trivialization of events right after WW II on the cold war and the Soviet Union. Most of the 20 million deaths committed by the Soviet Union was in eastern Europe so it seems that it doesn't qualify on the `American Death Conversion Chart' (e.g. 500 deaths by a natural disaster in Asia equals news worthiness of 0.5 American deaths) to write about with any significance. (Granted these deaths occurred before the cold war, but the same repressive regime was in power.) The sad truth is that many atrocities have been committed by humanity, and numerous atrocities committed in the past 100 years. The Japanese committed horrible atrocities against the Chinese in Manchuria, and returning from a visit to the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India brought further details of past and on-going atrocities by the Chinese. It's worthy to be reminded of past atrocities, least we forget, and it would be refreshing to read of them without other atrocities being marginalized.
As it is, this is an excellent novel, quickly flowing, an enjoyable style of writing, with an interesting plot, and is well deserving of an award for best science fiction novel.
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