Best Novel, 1976

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 272 pages · First published by St. Martin's Press

A soldier fights an interstellar war in which each tour lasts months for him and centuries for Earth, so that every homecoming is to a stranger's world.

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Also on the ballot

Doorways in the SandRoger ZelaznyAnalog Jun,Jul,Aug 1975; Harper & Row, 1976
InfernoLarry Niven and Jerry PournelleGalaxy Aug,Sep,Oct 1975
The Computer Connection (alt: The Indian Giver)Alfred BesterBerkley Putnam, 1975
The Stochastic ManRobert SilverbergF&SF Apr,May,Jun 1975; Harper & Row, 1975