Camouflage

This is my third novel by Haldeman. The first two were The Forever War and Forever Peace. I loved the former and was mixed on the later. This book is very different in tone and style. I liked it, but thought it rambled in the middle. I think it might have worked better as a novella. It's about two aliens on Earth for millions of years that are suddenly drawn to an artifact found by the Americans in an ocean trench in the Pacific. The two didn't know the other existed. One's a changeling, being able to change into anything, organic or inorganic. The other is a chameleon who is only able to take on the appearance of a man. They don't know what the artifact is, but the chameleon decides it's a ship back home and he's determined that he will be the sole occupant. This book won the Nebula for 2005 and the Otherwise Award for 2004 for its dealing with gender issues.

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