The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975;[3] Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1976[1])
"A Separate War" (1999, short story; appeared first in 1999 in the anthology Far Horizons; collected in 2006 in War Stories and A Separate War and Other Stories) (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)
Forever Peace (1997) (while thematically linked to the previous novel, Forever Peace 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)
Sections of The Forever War were originally published in Analog Magazine as four novellas: "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.[4]
"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).
"Forever Bound", a 2010 short story which appears in the anthology Warriors. It is a prequel to Forever Peace, and it tells the story of Julian Class being drafted and trained as a soldierboy while falling in love with Carolyn.