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The Forever War series

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Author
  
Joe Haldeman

Books
  
The Forever War, Forever Peace, Forever Free

The Forever War series is a series of science fiction novels by Joe Haldeman. Not all of them take place in the same future universe.

Contents

The Forever War series

  • The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975; Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1976)
  • "A Separate War" (1999, short shory; appeared first in the anthology Far Horizons, now collected in War Stories and A Separate War and Other Stories (2006)) (The story of Marygay Potter after she parts with William Mandella in The Forever War)
  • Forever Free (1999) (a direct sequel to the first novel)

    • The Forever Peace series

  • Forever Peace (1997) (while thematically linked to the previous novel, Forever Peace is not actually a sequel and is not set in the same universe: it is an entirely separate work, although published in a combined volume titled Peace and War with The Forever War and Forever Free)
  • "Forever Bound" (2010, short story; appears in the anthology Warriors) (a prequel to Forever Peace, it tells the story of Julian Class being drafted and trained as a soldierboy while falling in love with Carolyn)

    • Description

    Forever Peace, while thematically linked to the previous novel The Forever War, is an entirely separate work.

    Forever Free is a proper sequel to The Forever War, continuing the story of that novel's main characters Mandella and Marygay Potter.

    The Forever War and Forever Peace both received the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for Best Novel.

    Publication

    Sections of The Forever War were originally published in Analog Magazine as four shorter works; "Hero", "We Are Very Happy Here", "This Best of All Possible Worlds", and "End Game". "You Can Never Go Back" was published in Amazing Stories and eventually became part of the paperback version of the novel.

    Adaptation

    In 1988, The Forever War was adapted with art by Marvano into a three-part graphic novel also titled The Forever War. It was originally published in Belgium and France in 1988 then released in an American edition in 1991. Translations have appeared in Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Swedish and Polish.

    Short story

    "A Separate War", a 1999 Haldeman short story which follows the adventures of Marygay Potter after she and Mandella are separated in the last years of the Forever War, appeared in Far Horizons (edited by Robert Silverberg) and in Haldeman's short-story collection A Separate War and Other Stories (2006). It has also appeared as a graphic novel.

    References

    The Forever War series Wikipedia
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