Premium & Rewards Members Earn Double Stamps Shop Now Ends 7/5Premium & Rewards Members Earn Double Stamps Shop Now Ends 7/5
Add Item to wish listAdd Item to wish list
Read sample

The Forever War

By Joe Haldeman
Paperback
$19.00
By Joe Haldeman
2|

Premium Members get an additional 10% off now through 07/05/26, Premium & Rewards Members Earn Double Stamps! 10 stamps = $5 reward.

Promotion message icon
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Formats
See All Formats & Editions
In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.

Joe Haldeman's monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic The Forever War-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his d...

From the B&N Reads Blog

Conscripted by Aliens: The Darkside War Twists the Conventions of Classic Military Sci-Fi

Conscripted by Aliens: The Darkside War Twists the Conventions of Classic Military Sci-Fi

Military science fiction has been a mainstay of the genre for decades. Grafting the tropes of military service—training, camaraderie, combat—offers endless opportunities for invention. Zachary Brown’s The Darkside War, released last month from Saga Press, falls squarely into the classic confines of the category: it’s a lightning-fast adventure, filled with aliens, conquests, and all the technology you could […]
Read More
Space Opera: Making Us Immortal with One Neat Trick

Space Opera: Making Us Immortal with One Neat Trick

We used to call it a cliché, now we might prefer the term “enduring meme,” but either way, everyone knows what you mean when you say: it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. It’s a reference, however body-shaming and gender-biased, to the buxom soprano letting out the high notes at the climax of a dramatic […]
Read More
Joe Haldeman on Adapting a Classic Novel into a Graphic Novel

Joe Haldeman on Adapting a Classic Novel into a Graphic Novel

Upon its publication in 1974, Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War instantly became an iconic piece of science fiction allegory. The novel tells the story of William Mandella, a soldier who witnesses the entirety of a future war that ought never to have happened, and who, through the tricks of time dilation and relativity, returns home […]
Read More
50 of the Greatest Science Fiction & Fantasy Debut Novels Ever Written

50 of the Greatest Science Fiction & Fantasy Debut Novels Ever Written

tThe ability to write a great novel is some mysterious proportion of natural talent and hard-won mastery of the craft, yet the business of publishing, that eternal conflict between art and commerce, loves to celebrate the new, the untested. That is to say, there’s nothing quite like the excitement of a debut novel, even though […]
Read More

Categories