Joe Haldeman

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Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow
Born: born June 9, 1943
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Occupation(s): Novelist
Genre(s): Science fiction
Literary movement: Military SF
Debut work(s): "War Year"
Magnum Opus: The Forever War

Joseph William Haldeman is an American science fiction author. Haldeman was born 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 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 sci-fi called Robot Jox, was released in 1990.

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

Contents

[edit] Major awards

[edit] 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) - Best Novel

[edit] John W. Campbell Award

  • Forever Peace (1998) - John W. Campbell Memorial Award

[edit] Nebula Award

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

[edit] Rhysling Award

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

[edit] World Fantasy Award

  • "Graves" (1993) - Short Fiction

[edit] Selected 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
  • 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

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