Joe Haldeman

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Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Born June 9, 1943 (1943-06-09) (age 68)
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.

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[edit] 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.[1] 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.[2] In 2009 and 2010, he was hospitalized for pancreatitis.[3][4]

[edit] 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.[5]

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.[6] 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".[7]

He is a lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past-president.[8]

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).

[edit] Major awards

[edit] Hugo Award

[edit] John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

  • Forever Peace (1998)[10]

[edit] Nebula Award

[edit] Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Lifetime achievement, 2010, awarded at the Nebula Awards Ceremony

[edit] Locus Award

[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[13]

[edit] James Tiptree, Jr. Award

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] Literary works

[edit] Attar the Merman

[edit] Mars series

[edit] Forever series

[edit] Worlds series

[edit] Comic works

[edit] References

  1. ^ According to the author's note (page 278) in the SF-novel The Accidental Time Machine
  2. ^ "Joe Haldeman: Art for Art's Sake". Locus Online. October 2001. http://www.locusmag.com/2001/Issue10/Haldeman.html. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  3. ^ http://file770.com/?tag=joe-haldeman
  4. ^ "Sci-fi legend Joe Haldeman in intensive care". http://www.keepingthedoor.com/2009/09/24/sci-fi-legend-joe-haldeman-in-intensive-care. 
  5. ^ Michael Fleming (2008-10-12). "Ridley Scott takes on 'War': Film based on Haldeman novel 'Forever'". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993856.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  6. ^ "Robot Jox". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/. Retrieved 2008-12-31. 
  7. ^ Michael McGraw-Herdeg (2008-10-17). "Prof. Haldeman’s Novel ‘Forever War’ Picked Up By 20th Century Fox Film". The Tech. http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N48/foreverwar.html. Retrieved 2008-12-31. 
  8. ^ http://www.sfwa.org/tag/joe-haldeman/
  9. ^ a b c "1976 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1976. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
  10. ^ a b c "1998 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1998. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
  11. ^ a b "1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1975. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
  12. ^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2004. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
  13. ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/. Retrieved 04 Feb 2011. 
  14. ^ a b c d Locus Index to SF Awards
  15. ^ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2001. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
  16. ^ "2005 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2005. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 
  17. ^ "2007 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2007. Retrieved 2009-05-17. 

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