Publisher's Synopsis
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.
