Joe Haldeman
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Joe Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.
Joe William 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. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter in 1965. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967. That same year he was drafted into the army and served in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat and his wartime experience was the inspiration for War Year, his first novel. He currently resides in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches at MIT.
Haldeman's most famous novel is The Forever War, inspired by his Vietnam experiences, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He later turned it into a series.
Haldeman is the brother of the late Jack C. Haldeman II, also a science fiction author.
Partial chronological listing of books:
- War Year (1972)
- Attar's Revenge (1975) - written under the pseudonym Robert Graham
- War of Nerves (1975) - written under the pseudonym Robert Graham
- The Forever War (1975)
- Mindbridge (1976)
- Planet of Judgement (1977) - a Star Trek novel
- All My Sins Remembered (1977)
- Infinite Dreams (1978) - short story collection
- Worlds (1981) - first volume in Worlds trilogy
- There is No Darkness (1983) - cowritten with Jack C. Haldeman II
- Worlds Apart (1983) - second volume in Worlds trilogy
- Dealing in Futures (1985) - short story collection
- Tool of the Trade (1987)
- Buying Time (1989)
- The Hemingway Hoax (1990)
- Worlds Enough and Time (1992) - third volume in Worlds trilogy
- 1968 (1995)
- None So Blind (1996) - short story collection
- Forever Peace (1997)
- Saul's Death and Other Poems (1997) - poetry collection
- Forever Free (1999)
- The Coming (2000)
- Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) - as editor
- Guardian (2002)
- Camouflage (2004)
External link
- Joe Haldeman's Website (http://home.earthlink.net/~haldeman/)
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