Forever Peace
- 368
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- Nebula Award for Best Novel
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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Our view
Haldeman uses military science fiction in “Forever Peace” to ask, darkly and thoughtfully, what it would take to end war. Some readers find many fine ideas in it but a plot that feels disjointed and hard to grasp on a first reading. The novel won the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial awards; despite its title, some readers point out, it is no sequel to “The Forever War” and has entirely different characters.
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About the book
Forever Peace is a 1997 science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman. It won the Nebula Award, Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1998.
Reading order · The Forever War series
Full order & progress →- The Forever WarStart here
8.28.2 / 10 - Forever PeaceThis book
7.57.5 / 10 - Forever Free
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 141 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 49% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out. A further +0.20 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.5 | 19 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 122 | 87% |
Frequently asked
How long is Forever Peace?
It has 368 pages — shorter than 67% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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