" The Forever War " by Joe Haldeman, was published in 1974 and I first read it as a child.  It is an absolutely iconic novel of what relativity might do to the lives of people who travel in space, especially if we ever had the disaster of an interstellar war, is one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, and probably just about beats Ursula Le Guin's " The word for world is forest " as the greatest Science Fiction anti-war novel of all time.   ( Original book cover art above was by Patrick Woodroffe ) The book is narrated by William Mandela, and at the start of the book, set in 1996, he is a private, called up to fight in a war which has just started against an alien race known as the "Taurans.". In the author's preface to the Gollancz masterworks edition, written in 1997, Haldeman explained that he set the start of the story in 1996 so that it was just possible that some of the officers and senior non-commissioned officers at that st...

 A piece of fan fiction, but it makes some good arguments.

" May the 4th be with you " was first used by the British Conservative party. It was a newspaper advert message from party workers to it's leader, Margaret Thatcher, who became Britain's first woman Prime Minister on 4th May 1979 after winning the general election the previous day.

May the 4th be with you!

 A question particularly apposite to today. Which organisation first coined the phrase " May the 4th be with you " on 4th May 1979 and as a complement to whom on what historic achievement?  If you want to submit an answer please put it in the comments. The correct answer will be confirmed  tomorrow morning.