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Haldeman resides alternately in [[Gainesville, Florida]] and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. Since 1983, he has been an Adjunct Professor teaching writing<ref name=WHS>{{cite web|title=Faculty|url=http://writing.mit.edu/people/faculty|work=Writing and Humanistic Studies|publisher=MIT|accessdate=2013-11-26}}</ref><ref name=JHweb>{{cite web|last=Haldeman|first=Joe|title=[homepage]|url=http://www.joehaldeman.com|work=Joe Haldeman [website]|accessdate=2013-11-26}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/2001/Issue10/Haldeman.html | title=Joe Haldeman: Art for Art's Sake | publisher=''Locus'' Online | date=October 2001 | accessdate=2008-10-13}}</ref> |
Haldeman resides alternately in [[Gainesville, Florida]] and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. Since 1983, he has been an Adjunct Professor teaching writing<ref name=WHS>{{cite web|title=Faculty|url=http://writing.mit.edu/people/faculty|work=Writing and Humanistic Studies|publisher=MIT|accessdate=2013-11-26}}</ref><ref name=JHweb>{{cite web|last=Haldeman|first=Joe|title=[homepage]|url=http://www.joehaldeman.com|work=Joe Haldeman [website]|accessdate=2013-11-26}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/2001/Issue10/Haldeman.html | title=Joe Haldeman: Art for Art's Sake | publisher=''Locus'' Online | date=October 2001 | accessdate=2008-10-13}}</ref> |
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In 2009 and 2010, he was hospitalized for [[pancreatitis]].<ref>[http://file770.com/?tag=joe-haldeman Hamit: LepreCon 38: A Con The Way They Used To Be]. File770.com. {{full|date=September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |
In 2009 and 2010, he was hospitalized for [[pancreatitis]].<ref>[http://file770.com/?tag=joe-haldeman Hamit: LepreCon 38: A Con The Way They Used To Be]. File770.com. {{full|date=September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.keepingthedoor.com/2009/09/24/sci-fi-legend-joe-haldeman-in-intensive-care |title=Sci-fi legend Joe Haldeman in intensive care |date=September 24, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20091216193729/http://www.keepingthedoor.com:80/2009/09/24/sci-fi-legend-joe-haldeman-in-intensive-care/ |archivedate=December 16, 2009 }}</ref> |
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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). |
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). |
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Joe Haldeman | |
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Born | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States | June 9, 1943
Pen name | Robert Graham[1] |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1972–present |
Genre | Science fiction |
Literary movement | Military sci-fi |
Notable works | The Forever War |
Relatives | 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 War Year and his second novel The Forever War, 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 DC, Bethesda (Maryland), and Anchorage (Alaska) as a child. In 1965, Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known as "Gay". He received a BS degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967.[5]
He was immediately drafted into the United States Army, and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart. His wartime experience was the inspiration for War Year, his first novel; also later books such as The Hemingway Hoax and Old Twentieth which 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]
Haldeman 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]
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).
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 television 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]
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]
He is a lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past-president.[citation needed][14]
- 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
- Forever Peace (1998)[16]
- The Forever War (1975)[17] - Novel
- The Hemingway Hoax (1990) - Novella
- "Graves" (1993) - Short Story
- Forever Peace (1998)[16] - Novel
- Camouflage (2004)[18] - Novel
- The Forever War (1976)[15] - SF Novel
- "Saul's Death" (1984) - Long Poem
- "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1991) - Short Poem
- "January Fires" (2001) - Long Poem
- "Graves" (1993) - Short Fiction[19]
- Camouflage (2004)
Selected works
- The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975;[17] Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1976[15])
- Forever Free (1999) (a direct sequel to the first novel)
- "A Separate War" (2006, short shory; appears in A Separate War and Other Stories) (The story of Marygay Potter after she parts with William Mandella in The Forever War)
Attar (the Merman) series
- Attar's Revenge (1975) (published under the pseudonym Robert Graham)
- War of Nerves (1975) (published under the pseudonym Robert Graham)
Worlds series
- Worlds (1981)
- Worlds Apart (1983)
- Worlds Enough and Time (1992)
Forever Peace series
- Forever Peace (1997) (while thematically linked to Haldeman's The Forever War series, Forever Peace is not set in the same universe)
- "Forever Bound" (2010, short story; appears in the anthology 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)
Marsbound trilogy
- Marsbound (2008) (also serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact) - placed fifth in annual Locus Poll[2])
- Starbound (2010)
- Earthbound (2011)
Star Trek: The Original Series novels
- Planet of Judgment (1977) - a Star Trek novel
- World Without End (1979) - a Star Trek novel
Non-series
- War Year (1972) - nongenre Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differ
- Mindbridge (1976) - Hugo nominee, placed second in annual Locus Poll[2]
- All My Sins Remembered (1977)
- There is No Darkness (1983) - cowritten with Jack C. Haldeman II
- Tool of the Trade (1987)
- Buying Time (1989) - published in the UK as The Long Habit of Living
- The Hemingway Hoax (1990)
- 1968 (1994) (novel) - Vietnam War novel
- The Coming (2000) - Locus SF nominee, 2001[20]
- Guardian (2002)
- Camouflage (2004) - Nebula Award winner, 2005[21]
- Old Twentieth (2005)
- The Accidental Time Machine (2007) - Nebula Award nominee, 2007;[22] placed fifth in annual Locus Poll[2]
- Work Done For Hire (2014)
Short fiction collection
- Infinite Dreams (1978)
- Dealing in Futures (1985)
- Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (1993)
- None So Blind (1996)
- Saul's Death and Other Poems (1997)
- War Stories (2006)
- A Separate War and Other Stories (2006)
- The Best of Joe Haldeman (2013)
Anthologies edited
- Cosmic Laughter (1974)
- Study War No More (1977)
- Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
- Body Armor: 2000 (1986) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
- Supertanks (1987) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
- Space-Fighters (1988) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
- Future Weapons of War (2007) (with Martin H. Greenberg)
Comics
- 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
- ^ a b c Joe Haldeman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2013-04-04. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Haldeman, Joe". Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
- ^ a b "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved 2013-04-04.
- ^ a b "Science Fiction Hall of Fame: EMP Museum Announces the 2012 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees". May/June 2012. EMP Museum (empmuseum.org). Archived 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
- ^ According to the author's note (page 278) in the SF-novel The Accidental Time Machine
- ^ "Macmillan entry for author". Retrieved 2013-10-22.
- ^ "Faculty". Writing and Humanistic Studies. MIT. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ^ Haldeman, Joe. "[homepage]". Joe Haldeman [website]. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ^ "Joe Haldeman: Art for Art's Sake". Locus Online. October 2001. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
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(help) - ^ "Foxhole Pizza and Interstellar Quail: Cooking the Books with Joe and Gay Haldeman". Sfwa.org. [page needed]
- ^ a b c "1976 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ^ a b c "1998 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ^ a b "1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- ^ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ^ "2005 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ^ "2007 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
External links
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- Official website
- Daily diary on sff.net
- Blog on LiveJournal
- Template:Wayback at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (archived 2013-05-10)
- Joe Haldeman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Template:Goodreads author
- Joe Haldeman at the Internet Book List
- Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel
- Review of War Stories
- Joe Haldeman at Fantastic Fiction
- Joe Haldeman at Library of Congress, with 46 library catalog records
- Robert Graham at LC Authorities (no records)
Interviews
- Authors@ Google: Joe Haldeman on YouTube 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)
- 1943 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American science fiction writers
- Military science fiction writers
- Hugo Award winning writers
- Nebula Award winners
- Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees
- SFWA Grand Masters
- World Fantasy Award winning writers
- American military personnel of the Vietnam War
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- People from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Writers from Gainesville, Florida
- Writers from Oklahoma
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School alumni
- Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem winners
- Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem winners