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Joe Haldeman


(Joe William Haldeman)
USA flag (b.1943)
Brother of Jack C Haldeman II

aka Robert Graham

Joe Haldeman began his writing career while he was still in the army. Drafted in 1967, he fought in the Central Highlands of Vietnam as a combat engineer with the Fourth Division. He was awarded several medals, including a Purple Heart. Haldeman sold his first story in 1969 and has since written over two dozen novels and five collections of short stories and poetry. He has won the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his novels, novellas, poems, and short stories, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award, the Rhysling Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. His works include The Forever War, Forever Peace, Camouflage, 1968, the Worlds saga, and the Marsbound series. Haldeman recently retired after many years as an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Gay, live in Florida, where he also paints, plays the guitar, rides his bicycle, and studies the skies with his telescope.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Forever War
   1. The Forever War (1974)
   2. Forever Peace (1997)
   3. Forever Free (1999)
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Attar the Merman (as by Robert Graham)
   1. Attar's Revenge (1975)
   2. War of Nerves (1975)
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Worlds
   1. Worlds (1981)
   2. Worlds Apart (1983)
   3. Worlds Enough and Time (1992)
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Marsbound
   1. Marsbound (2008)
   2. Starbound (2009)
   3. Earthbound (2011)
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Novels
   War Year (1972)
   Mindbridge (1976)
   1968 (1984)
   Tool of the Trade (1987)
   Buying Time (1989)
     aka The Long Habit of Living
   The Coming (2000)
   Guardian (2002)
   Camouflage (2004)
   Old Twentieth (2005)
   The Accidental Time Machine (2007)
   Work Done for Hire (2014)
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Collections
   All My Sins Remembered (1977)
   Infinite Dreams (1978)
   There Is No Darkness (1983) (with Jack C Haldeman II)
   Alien Stars (1985) (with C J Cherryh and Timothy Zahn)
   Dealing in Futures (1985)
   Vietnam (1993)
   None So Blind (1996)
   Saul's Death (poems) (1996)
   A Separate War (2006)
   The Mars Girl / As Big as the Ritz (2016) (with Gregory Benford)
   Unrivaled (2023) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Joe Haldeman recommends
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Overkill (2011)
(Orphan's Legacy, book 1)
Robert Buettner
"Buettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier - the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives."
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Circle of Five (2003)
(Cass Shipton, book 1)
Dolores Stewart Riccio
"Witty and fast-paced."
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The Silk Code (1999)
(Dr Phil D'Amato, book 1)
Paul Levinson
"Mixes up-to-the-minute biotechnology with ancient myth, science fiction with police procedure, and prehistory with the near future. It's an impressive debut."

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Anthologies containing stories by Joe Haldeman
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The Last Dangerous Visions (2024)
(Dangerous Visions, book 3)
edited by
Harlan Ellison
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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Bullet Points 2 (2022)
(Bullet Points, book 2)
edited by
Nathan W Toronto

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Awards
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1973) : Hero
Hugo Best Novel winner (1976) : The Forever War
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1976) : The Forever War
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1977) : Mindbridge
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1977) : Tricentennial
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1977) : Tricentennial
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1986) : More than the Sum of His Parts
Hugo Best Novella winner (1991) : The Hemingway Hoax [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novella winner (1991) : The Hemingway Hoax [short story]
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1991) : The Hemingway Hoax [short story]
World Fantasy Best Short Story winner (1993) : Graves
Nebula Awards Best Short Story winner (1994) : Graves
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1995) : None So Blind [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1995) : None So Blind [short story]
Hugo Best Novel winner (1998) : Forever Peace
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1998) : Forever Peace
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1999) : Forever Peace
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Best Book winner (2004) : Camouflage
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (2006) : Camouflage
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2008) : The Accidental Time Machine


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