Forever Peace
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Forever Peace is a 1997 Hugo Award winning science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman.
Though its title is similar to The Forever War and both novels deal with soldiers in the future, Forever Peace takes place on Earth much closer to the present day. Also, instead of extraterrestrials, the narrator and his fellow soldiers are fighting third world guerrillas in an endless series of economically driven wars. Rather than fighting in person, the American troops use remotely-piloted vehicles (called "soldierboys", "flyboys" and "sailorboys") and are thus nearly invincible. Only the nations that possess molecular nanotechnology are able to build such machines. These nations form the first world. The novel explores the moral questions raised by such use of military technology, and imagines an unusual approach to ending war permanently.
The author proposes a new theory about the universe, whereas life evolves until it can re-create the big bang, then eventually destroys itself, creating another big bang... etc... The molecular nanotechnology is called a NanoForge, and can produce anything from raw atomic materials.
| The Forever War series |
| The Forever War (1975) | Forever Peace (1997) | Forever Free (1999) |
| Novellas |
| A Separate War |
