Joe Haldeman

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Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Born	June 9, 1943 (1943-06-09) Oklahoma City, Okla.
Pen name	Robert Graham
Occupation	Novelist
Genres	Science fiction
Literary movement	Military SF
Notable work(s)	The Forever War

Joe William Haldeman (born 1943) is an American science fiction author.

Life

Haldeman was born June 9, 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, known as "Gay", in 1965. He received a BS degree in Physics and 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 an MFA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He resides in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches writing at MIT. In addition to being an award-winning writer, Haldeman is a painter. In 2009 and 2010, he was hospitalized for pancreatitis.

Work

Haldeman's most famous novel is The Forever War (1974), 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). In October 2008 it was announced that Ridley Scott will direct a feature film based on The Forever War for Fox.

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, saying "to me it’s as if I’d had a child who started out well and then sustained brain damage".

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

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

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Lifetime achievement, 2010, awarded at the Nebula Awards Ceremony

Locus Award

• The Forever War (1976) - 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

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

• Camouflage (2004)

Selected bibliography

Literary works

• War Year (1972) - Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differ
• Mindbridge (1976) - Hugo nominee, placed second in annual Locus Poll
• 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)
• None So Blind (1996) - short story collection
• Saul's Death and Other Poems (1997) - poetry chapbook
• The Coming (2000) - Locus SF nominee, 2001
• Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) - as editor
• Guardian (2002)
• Camouflage (2004) - Nebula Award winner, 2005
• 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; placed fifth in annual Locus Poll

Attar the Merman

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

Mars series

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

Forever series

• The Forever War (1974) - Nebula Award winner, 1975; Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1976
• Forever Peace (1997) - Hugo, Nebula and Campbell Awards winner, placed third in annual Locus Poll
• Forever Free (1999)

Worlds series

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

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)

External links

• Joe Haldeman's Website
• Haldeman's daily diary on sff.net
• Haldeman's blog on LiveJournal
• All of Joe Haldeman's audio interviews on the podcast The Future And You (in which he describes his expectations of the future)
• 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)