Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American people science fiction author and former college professor. He is best known for his novel The Forever War (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War. That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
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. He had to repeatedly start classes as a new kid in local schools.
In 1965, Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known as Gay Haldeman. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967.[According to the author's note (page 278) in the SF-novel The Accidental Time Machine]
He was immediately conscription into the United States Army. Serving as a combat engineer in the Vietnam War, he was wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart.
In 1975, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Haldeman has resided alternately in Gainesville, Florida, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1983 until his retirement in 2014,
In 2009 and 2010, Haldeman was hospitalized for pancreatitis.[ Hamit: LepreCon 38: A Con The Way They Used To Be. File770.com. ]
Work
Haldeman's first book was a 122-page novel,
War Year, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in May 1972. The novel was sold with the help of fellow writer
Ben Bova. It was based on his letters home from Vietnam and was marketed as mainstream and young adult.
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 Award,
Nebula Award and
.
He later wrote sequels.
In 1975, two Attar novels were published as Pocket Books paperback originals under the pen name Robert Graham.
In a college creative writing class in 1967, Haldeman wrote the first two SF stories which he (later) sold. "Out of Phase" was published in the September 1969 Galaxy magazine, and "the other worked its way down to a penny-a-word market, Amazing Stories, and netted me all of $15 – but then years later it was adapted for The Twilight Zone, for fifty times as much. Not bad for a story banged out overnight to meet a class deadline."[ Autobiographical ramble by Joe Haldeman]
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.
In a 2016 interview, Haldeman said, "Jack of all trades, master of none I think. It's a way to go. Not all writers go that way, but many of them do. On a day-to-day basis I wake up in the morning and I can do anything I feel like doing. I don't say, uh oh, I've gotta get back to that damn novel again. I can always write a poem or something. ... "[ Joy Ward interviews Joe Haldeman , Galaxy's Edge magazine, January 2016]
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.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in June 2012.
He has also won numerous annual awards for particular works.
He is a lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past president.[ "Foxhole Pizza and Interstellar Quail: Cooking the Books with Joe and Gay Haldeman". Sfwa.org. ]
His Filk music song "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" received a Pegasus Award in 2005.
He received the Inkpot Award in 1991.[ Inkpot Award]
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Hugo Award
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The Forever War (1976)
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"Tricentennial" (1977) – short story
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The Hemingway Hoax (1991) – novella
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"None So Blind" (1995) – short story
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Forever Peace (1998)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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Nebula Award
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The Forever War (1975)
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The Hemingway Hoax (1990) – novella
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"Graves" (1993) – short story
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Forever Peace (1998)
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Camouflage (2004)
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Locus Award
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The Forever War (1976)
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None So Blind (1995) Locus Award for Best Short Story
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None So Blind (1997) Locus Award for Best Collection
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"Saul's Death" (1984) – long poem
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"Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1991) – short poem
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"January Fires" (2001) – long poem
World Fantasy Award
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"Graves" (1993) – Short Fiction
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Pegasus Award
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"The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" (2005) – Best Space Opera Song
Bibliography
Non-series
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War Year (1972) – nongenre Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differ
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Mindbridge (1976) – Hugo nominee, placed second in annual Locus Award
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All My Sins Remembered (1977)
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There Is No Darkness (1983) – cowritten with Jack C. Haldeman II
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Tool of the Trade (1987)
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Buying Time (1989) – published in the UK as The Long Habit of Living
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The Hemingway Hoax (1990)
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1968 (1994) (novel) – Vietnam War novel
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The Coming (2000) – Locus SF nominee, 2001
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Guardian (2002)
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Camouflage (2004) – Nebula Award winner, 2005
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Old Twentieth (2005)
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The Accidental Time Machine (2007) – Nebula Award nominee, 2007;
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Work Done for Hire (2014)
Forever War series
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The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975;
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"A Separate War" (1999, short story; appeared first in 1999 in the anthology Far Horizons; collected in 2006 in War Stories and A Separate War and Other Stories. The story of Marygay Potter after she parts with William Mandella in The Forever War.)
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Forever Free (1999) (a direct sequel to the first novel)
Attar (the Merman) series
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Attar's Revenge (1975) (published under the pseudonym Robert Graham)
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War of Nerves (1975) (published under the pseudonym Robert Graham)
Star Trek novels
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Planet of Judgment (1977)
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World Without End (1979)
Worlds series
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Worlds (1981)
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Worlds Apart (1983)
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Worlds Enough and Time (1992)
Forever Peace series
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Forever Peace (1997) (Nebula Award winner, 1998;
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"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
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Marsbound (2008) (also serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact) – placed fifth in annual Locus Award
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Starbound (2010)
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Earthbound (2011)
Short fiction collection
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Infinite Dreams (1978)
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Dealing in Futures (1985)
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Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (1993)
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None So Blind (1996)
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A Separate War and Other Stories (2006)
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The Best of Joe Haldeman (2013)
Anthologies edited
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Cosmic Laughter (1974)
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Study War No More (1977)
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Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983)
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Body Armor: 2000 (1986) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
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Supertanks (1987) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
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Space-Fighters (1988) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
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Future Weapons of War (2007) (with Martin H. Greenberg)
Comics
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The Forever War drawn by Marvano (better known as Marvano) (original edition La Guerre éternelle (1988–1989))
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Forever Free drawn by Marvano (original edition Libre à jamais (2002))
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Dallas Barr drawn by Marvano based on Buying Time (1996–2005)
Poetry
- Collections
- List of poems
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See also
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[
"Haldeman, Joe" . Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved April 4, 2013.]
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"Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master" . Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved April 4, 2013.]
[
"Science Fiction Hall of Fame: EMP Museum Announces the 2012 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees". May/June 2012. EMP Museum ( empmuseum.org). Archived July 22, 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-19.]
External links
Interviews
