Joe Haldeman

Infobox Writer
name=Joe Haldeman

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birthdate = birth date and age|1943|6|9
birthplace = Oklahoma City, Okla.
occupation = Novelist
genre = Science fiction
movement = Military SF
notableworks = "The Forever War"
debut_works = "War Year"
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Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.

Life and work

Haldeman was born in 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter in 1965. He received a bachelor of science degree in astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967. That same year he was drafted into the Army and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat and his wartime experience was the inspiration for "War Year", his first novel. In 1975, he received a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. He currently resides in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches writing at MIT.

Haldeman's most famous novel is "The Forever War", inspired by his Vietnam experiences, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He later turned it into a series. Haldeman also wrote two of the earliest original novels based on the 1960s "Star Trek" TV series universe, "Planet of Judgment" (August 1977) and "World Without End" (February 1979).

It's not as widely known that Haldeman has written at least one produced Hollywood movie script. The film, a low-budget science fiction film called "Robot Jox", was released in 1990. He was not entirely happy with the product.

Haldeman is the brother of Jack C. Haldeman II (1941-2002), also a science-fiction author whose work included an original "Star Trek" novel ("Perry's Planet", February 1980).

Major awards

Hugo Award

*"The Forever War" (1976) - Novel
*"Tricentennial" (1977) - Short Story
*"The Hemingway Hoax" (1991) - Novella
*"None So Blind" (1995) - Short Story
*"Forever Peace" (1998) - Novel

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

*"Forever Peace" (1998)

Nebula Award

*"The Forever War" (1975) - Novel
*"The Hemingway Hoax" (1990) - Novella
*"Graves" (1993) - Short Story
*"Forever Peace" (1998) - Novel
*"Camouflage" (2004) - Novel

Rhysling Award

*"Saul's Death" (1984) - Long Poem
*"Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1991) - Short Poem
*"January Fires" (2001) - Long Poem

World Fantasy Award

*"Graves" (1993) - Short Fiction

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

*"Camouflage" (2004)

elected bibliography

*"War Year" (1972)
*"Attar's Revenge" (1975) - written under the pseudonym Robert Graham
*"War of Nerves" (1975) - written under the pseudonym Robert Graham
*"The Forever War" (1975)
*"Mindbridge" (1976)
*"Study War No More" (1977) - a collection of short stories by various science fiction authors, edited by Joe Haldeman and featuring two stories by him
*"Planet of Judgement" (1977) - a "Star Trek" novel
*"All My Sins Remembered" (1977)
*"Infinite Dreams" (1978) - short story collection
*"World Without End" (1979) - a "Star Trek" novel
*"Worlds" (1981) - first volume in "Worlds" trilogy
*"There is No Darkness" (1983) - cowritten with Jack C. Haldeman II
*"Worlds Apart" (1983) - second volume in "Worlds" trilogy
*"Dealing in Futures" (1985) - short story collection
*"Seasons" (novella, 1985) - published in "Alien Stars", Elizabeth Mitchell, ed.
*"Tool of the Trade" (1987)
*"Buying Time" (1989) - published in the UK as "The Long Habit of Living"
*"The Hemingway Hoax" (1990)
*"Worlds Enough and Time" (1992) - third volume in "Worlds" trilogy
* "Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds" (1993) - collection of short stories, essays and poetry.
*"1968" (1995)
*"None So Blind" (1996) - short story collection
*"Forever Peace" (1997)
*"Saul's Death and Other Poems" (1997) - poetry chapbook
*"Forever Free" (1999)
*"The Coming" (2000)
*"Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century" (2001) - as editor
*"Guardian" (2002)
*"Camouflage" (2004)
*"Old Twentieth" (2005)
*"War Stories" (2006) - short story collection
*"A Separate War" (2006) - short story collection (title story directly linked to "The Forever War")
*"The Accidental Time Machine" (2007)
*"Marsbound" (2008) serialized in Analog

External links

* [http://home.earthlink.net/~haldeman/ Joe Haldeman's Website]
* [http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=xover&group=sff.people.joe-haldeman&from=-10/Joe Haldeman's daily diary on sff.net]
* [http://joe-haldeman.livejournal.com/ Haldeman's blog on LiveJournal]
* [http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/?search_string=haldeman&Submit=Search&search=1 All of Joe Haldeman's audio interviews on the podcast "The Future And You"] (in which he describes his expectations of the future)
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Interviews

* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=W5y632DJ5J4 Authors@ Google: Joe Haldeman] as part of the [http://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html Authors@Google series] (2007)
* [http://www.hardsf.net/?mode=8&id=3 Interview] conducted by Roger Deforest at [http://www.hardsf.net HardSF.net] (2006)
* [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/415/ The Craft of Science Fiction] hosted by [http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum MIT Communications Forum] (2006)