Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman
Haldeman at Finncon 2007 (Jyväskylä, Finland)
Born	(1943-06-09) June 9, 1943 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Pen name	Robert Graham[1]
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Period	1972–present
Genres	Science fiction
Literary movement	Military SF
Notable work(s)	The Forever War
Relative(s)	Jack C. Haldeman II, brother

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War. That novel, and other of his works including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.^[2] For his career writing science fiction and/or fantasy he is a SFWA Grand Master^[2][3] and since 2012 a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.^[4]

Many of Haldeman's works, including his debut novel and The Forever War (his second) were inspired by his experience serving in the Vietnam War, where he was wounded in combat, and by his adjustment to civilian life after returning home.

Life

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, known as "Gay", in 1965. He received a BS degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967.^[5] That same year he was drafted into the Army and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart and his wartime experience was the inspiration for War Year, his first novel; also later books such as "The Hemingway Hoax" and "Old Twentieth" deal extensively with the experience of combat soldiers in Vietnam and other wars. In 1975, he received an MFA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. ^[6]

He resides alternately in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1983, he has been an Adjunct Professor teaching writing^[7][8] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is also the fictional setting for his 2007 novel, The Accidental Time Machine. In addition to being an award-winning writer, Haldeman is a painter.^[9]

In 2009 and 2010, he was hospitalized for pancreatitis.^[10][11]

Work

Haldeman's first book was a 122-page novel, War Year, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in May 1972. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database summarizes, "about a soldier on combat duty in South Vietnam during 1968", and catalogs it as "non-genre"; that is, not speculative fiction.^[1] His most famous novel is his second, The Forever War (St. Martin's Press, 1974), which was inspired by his Vietnam experiences and originated as his MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop. It won the year's "Best Novel" Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards.^[2] He later turned it into a series. In 1975 two Attar novels were published as Pocket Books paperback originals under the pen name Robert Graham.^[1] 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).

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.^[12] He was not entirely happy with the product, saying "to me it’s as if I’d had a child who started out well and then sustained brain damage".^[13]

He is a lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past-president.^[14]

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

The Science Fiction Writers of America officers and past presidents selected Haldeman as the 27th SFWA Grand Master in 2009, and he received the corresponding Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement as a writer during Nebula Awards weekend in 2010.^[2][3] The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in June 2012.^[4]

He has also won numerous annual awards for particular works.^[2]

Hugo Award

• The Forever War (1974)^[15] - Novel
• "Tricentennial" (1977) - Short Story
• The Hemingway Hoax (1991) - Novella
• "None So Blind" (1995) - Short Story
• Forever Peace (1998)^[16] - Novel

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

• Forever Peace (1998)^[16]

Nebula Award

• The Forever War (1975)^[17] - Novel
• The Hemingway Hoax (1990) - Novella
• "Graves" (1993) - Short Story
• Forever Peace (1998)^[16] - Novel
• Camouflage (2004)^[18] - Novel

Locus Award

• The Forever War (1976)^[15] - SF 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^[19]

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

• Camouflage (2004)

Selected works

Literary works: series

The Forever War series

• The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975;^[17] Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1976^[15])
• Forever Peace (1997) (while thematically linked to the previous novel, Forever Peace is not actually a sequel : it is an entirely separate work, although published in a combined volume titled Peace and War with The Forever War and Forever Free)
• Forever Free (1999)
• "A Separate War" (2006, short shory; appears in A Separate War and Other Stories) (Tells the story of Marygay Potter after she parts with William Mandella in The Forever War)
• "Forever Bound" (2010, short story; appears in Warriors) (A prequel to Forever Peace, it tells the story of Julian Class being drafted and trained as a soldierboy while falling in love with Carolyn)

Attar the Merman

• Attar's Revenge (1975) - written under the pseudonym Robert Graham
• War of Nerves (1975) - written under the pseudonym Robert Graham

Worlds series

• Worlds (1981)
• Worlds Apart (1983)
• Worlds Enough and Time (1992)

Mars series

• Marsbound (2008) - (also serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact) - placed fifth in annual Locus Poll^[2]
• Starbound (2010)
• Earthbound (2011)

Literary works: non-series

• War Year (1972) - Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differ
• Mindbridge (1976) - Hugo nominee, placed second in annual Locus Poll^[2]
• 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 Judgment (1977) - a Star Trek novel
• All My Sins Remembered (1977)
• Infinite Dreams (1978) - short story collection
• World Without End (1979) - a Star Trek novel
• There is No Darkness (1983) - cowritten with Jack C. Haldeman II
• 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)
• Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (1993) - collection of short stories, essays and poetry.
• 1968 (1995) (novel)
• None So Blind (1996) - short story collection
• Saul's Death and Other Poems (1997) - poetry chapbook
• Forever Peace (1997) - Hugo, Nebula and Campbell Awards winner, placed third in annual Locus Poll^[2]
• The Coming (2000) - Locus SF nominee, 2001^[20]
• Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) - as editor
• Guardian (2002)
• Camouflage (2004) - Nebula Award winner, 2005^[21]
• Old Twentieth (2005)
• War Stories (2006) - short story collection
• A Separate War and Other Stories (2006) - short story collection (title story directly linked to The Forever War)
• The Accidental Time Machine (2007) - Nebula Award nominee, 2007;^[22] placed fifth in annual Locus Poll^[2]

Comic works

• The Forever War drawn by Mark van Oppen (better known as Marvano) (original edition La Guerre éternelle (1988–1989))
• Forever Free drawn by Mark van Oppen (better known as Marvano) (original edition Libre à jamais (2002))
• Dallas Barr drawn by Mark van Oppen (better known as Marvano) based on Buying Time (1996–2005)

See also

References

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Joe Haldeman

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joe Haldeman.

• Official website
• Haldeman's daily diary on sff.net
• Haldeman's blog on LiveJournal
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame — as of March 2013, Haldeman is a "Featured Member" on the top page but member biographies are not available
• Joe Haldeman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel
• Review of War Stories
• Fantastic Fiction Author Page

Interviews

• Authors@ Google: Joe Haldeman as part of the Authors@Google series (2007)
• Interview conducted by Roger Deforest (2006)
• The Craft of Science Fiction hosted by MIT Communications Forum (2006)
• 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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Persondata
Name	Haldeman, Joe
Alternative names	Haldeman, Joe William (full name); Graham, Robert (pseud.)
Short description	American science fiction writer
Date of birth	June 9, 1943
Place of birth	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Date of death
Place of death