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Joe Haldeman's The Forever War was a bizarre deconstruction of military SF, full of surreal imagery and borderline existentialism, inspired by the author's real-life experiences in the Vietnam war.

What book did they read? Not The Forever War.

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I think the someone may be unfamiliar with literary SF. The phrase "surreal imagery" sounds like something mainstream critics emit when they encounter the genre for the first time.

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