The Forever War
"The Forever War" was originally written as Haldeman's MFA thesis for the Iowa Writer's Workshop. It was first published as a serial in "Analog Magazine" before its first book publication in 1974. Since then, many editions of "The Forever War" have been published. Editions published prior to 1991 were abridged for space by the original editor (omitting the middle section, a novella titled "You Can Never Go Back"). These early paperback editions have "a white cover showing a man in a spacesuit with a sword, with symbolic clocks all around," according to the author, with alternatively the first hardcover edition featuring a large hourglass with planets falling through it.