War Stories

Hugo and Nebula Award winner Joe

Haldeman is one of the most compelling

writers to emerge from the Vietnam War.

War Stories collects together two novels,

several short stories, and two long poems

that deal explicitly with Haldeman's

Vietnam and post-Vietnam experiences.

The novel War Year was one of the first

books written by Haldeman upon his

return from Vietnam, and the novel 1968

(which chronicles time in country, as

well as a soldiers return "home") was not

published until 1994. These two novels

form compelling bookends to a career's

worth of writing that has been passionately

engaged with the questions raised by the

Vietnam War.

War Stories includes the Forever War

novella, "A Separate War," as well as three

new author introductions which give some

historical, personal, and bibliographic

background to the fiction herein.

The novels and stories in this book have

never been as potent, nor as terribly

relevant as they are today.