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You Can Never Go Back

Joe Haldeman

First published November 1975
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Forever War

First published in Amazing Science Fiction, November 1975.
According to SFE3 this was initially planned as part of "The Forever War" but was rejected in that function by the editor of Analog; it was reinstated into the 1991 Avon Eos edition and maybe before 1988 into the Easton Press edition (there's a renewed 1988 copyright assignment to Haldeman in later editions). It forms the "Sergeant Mandella" section in the Avon edition.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1975 Cover Amazing Science Fiction, November 1975 Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc. MAGAZINE 6
September 1985 Cover Dealing in Futures Viking Collection 136
March 1986 Cover Dealing in Futures Orbit / Futura Collection 136
April 1986 Dealing in Futures Macdonald Collection
May 1986 Cover Dealing in Futures Viking / SFBC Collection 136
September 1986 Cover Dealing in Futures Ace Books Collection 136
November 1993 Cover Dealing in Futures Roc / New American Library Collection 177
July 2020 Cover More Than the Sum of His Parts: Collected Stories Open Road Integrated Media Collection |7