Forever Free (The Forever War Series Book 2)

Forever Free is the sequel to The Forever War, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic that celebrates its 50th anniversary. The novel returns to a universe where human soldiers fought the alien Taurans in prolonged conflict. While soldier William Mandella fought for humanity's survival in a distant galaxy, thousands of years passed on Earth. Upon the war's end, he discovered that humanity had evolved into something unrecognizable. Faced with the choice between retaining his individuality or joining a genetically modified shared Human hive-mind, Mandella chose exile on a wasteland world called Middle Finger, alongside other Forever War veterans. Mandella and his life partner Marygay have built a life there, raising two children into middle age. When they learn the dark truth about the colonists' role in the continuation of the Human group mind, they hijack an interstellar vessel and escape across space and time. Their return brings them face to face with a mystery beyond human comprehension. The volume includes a bonus story, "A Separate War," in which Marygay, separated from Mandella and reassigned to military duty, fights across the stars while planning their reunion.