Joe Haldeman

Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox writer Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American 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.<ref name="SFAwards" /> He received the SFWA Grand Master for career achievements.<ref name="SFAwards" /><ref name="SFWA" /> In 2012, he was inducted as a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.<ref name="sfhof2012" /> From 1983 to 2014, he was a professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Life

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Gay Haldeman at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki in 2017

Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>According to the author's note (page 278) in the SF-novel The Accidental Time Machine</ref>

He was immediately drafted into the United States Army. Serving as a combat engineer in the Vietnam War, he was wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He struggled to adjust to civilian life after returning home. His wartime experience inspired his debut novel, War Year; his later novels such as The Hemingway Hoax and The Forever War, continued to explore the experience of soldiers in wartime and after returning home.

In 1975, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Haldeman has resided alternately in Gainesville, Florida, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1983 until his retirement in 2014,<ref name="Whitacre">Template:Cite web</ref> he was an adjunct professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<ref name="WHS">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="JHweb">Template:Cite web</ref> He set his 2007 novel, The Accidental Time Machine at MIT. Haldeman is also a painter.<ref name="locus">Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2009 and 2010, Haldeman was hospitalized for pancreatitis.<ref>Hamit: LepreCon 38: A Con The Way They Used To Be. File770.com. Template:Full citation needed</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name=jha /> 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.<ref name=SFAwards /> He later wrote sequels.

In 1975, two Attar novels were published as Pocket Books paperback originals under the pen name Robert Graham.<ref name=isfdb /> 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).

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."<ref name=jha>Autobiographical ramble Template:Webarchive by Joe Haldeman</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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. ... "<ref>Joy Ward interviews Joe Haldeman Template:Webarchive, Galaxy's Edge magazine, January 2016</ref>

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.<ref name=SFAwards /><ref name=SFWA /> The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in June 2012.<ref name=sfhof2012 />

He has also won numerous annual awards for particular works.<ref name=SFAwards />

He is a lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past president.Template:Citation needed<ref>"Foxhole Pizza and Interstellar Quail: Cooking the Books with Joe and Gay Haldeman". Sfwa.org. Template:Page needed</ref>

His filk song "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" received a Pegasus Award in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He received the Inkpot Award in 1991.<ref>Inkpot Award</ref>

Hugo Award

• The Forever War (1976)<ref name="WWE-1976">Template:Cite web</ref> – novel
• "Tricentennial" (1977) – short story
• The Hemingway Hoax (1991) – novella
• "None So Blind" (1995) – short story
• Forever Peace (1998)<ref name="WWE-1998">Template:Cite web</ref> – novel

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

• Forever Peace (1998)<ref name="WWE-1998" />

Nebula Award

• The Forever War (1975)<ref name="WWE-1975">Template:Cite web</ref> – novel
• The Hemingway Hoax (1990) – novella
• "Graves" (1993) – short story
• Forever Peace (1998)<ref name="WWE-1998" /> – novel
• Camouflage (2004)<ref name="WWE-2004">Template:Cite web</ref> – novel

Locus Award

• The Forever War (1976)<ref name="WWE-1976" /> – SF novel
• None So Blind (1995) Locus Award for Best Short Story<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• None So Blind (1997) Locus Award for Best Collection<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Rhysling Award

• "Saul's Death" (1984) – long poem
• "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1991) – short poem
• "January Fires" (2001) – long poem

World Fantasy Award

• "Graves" (1993) – Short Fiction<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

• Camouflage (2004)

Pegasus Award

• "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" (2005) – Best Space Opera Song

Bibliography

Non-series

• War Year (1972) – nongenre Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differ
• Mindbridge (1976) – Hugo nominee, placed second in annual Locus Poll<ref name="SFAwards" />
• 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<ref name="WWE-2001">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Guardian (2002)
• Camouflage (2004) – Nebula Award winner, 2005<ref name="WWE-2005">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Old Twentieth (2005)
• The Accidental Time Machine (2007) – Nebula Award nominee, 2007;<ref name="WWE-2007">Template:Cite web</ref> placed fifth in annual Locus Poll<ref name="SFAwards" />
• Work Done for Hire (2014)

Forever War series

• The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975;<ref name="WWE-1975"/> Hugo and Locus Awards winner, 1976<ref name="WWE-1976"/>)
• "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.)
• Forever Free (1999) (a direct sequel to the first novel)

Attar (the Merman) series

• Attar's Revenge (1975) (published under the pseudonym Robert Graham)
• War of Nerves (1975) (published under the pseudonym Robert Graham)

Star Trek novels

• Planet of Judgment (1977)
• World Without End (1979)

Worlds series

• Worlds (1981)
• Worlds Apart (1983)
• Worlds Enough and Time (1992)

Forever Peace series

• Forever Peace (1997) (Nebula Award winner, 1998;<ref name="WWE-1998"/> John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel winner, 1998;<ref name="WWE-1998"/> Hugo Awards winner, 1998<ref name="WWE-1998"/>) (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<ref name=SFAwards/>)
• Starbound (2010)
• Earthbound (2011)

Short fiction collection

• Infinite Dreams (1978)
• Dealing in Futures (1985)
• Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (1993)
• None So Blind (1996)
• 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 Seventeen (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 Marvano (original edition Libre à jamais (2002))
• Dallas Barr drawn by Marvano based on Buying Time (1996–2005)

Poetry

Collections

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List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Rounder	2013	Template:Cite journal
Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015)	2015	Template:Cite journal

References

<references> <ref name=isfdb> Template:Isfdb name (ISFDB). Retrieved April 4, 2013.</ref>

<ref name=SFAwards> "Haldeman, Joe" Template:Webarchive. Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved April 4, 2013.</ref> <ref name=SFWA> "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master" Template:Webarchive. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved April 4, 2013.</ref> <ref name=sfhof2012> "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.</ref> </references>

External links

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  • "Autobiographical Ramble", 16,600 words
• Daily diary on sff.net
• Blog on LiveJournal
• Template:Webarchive at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (archived 2013-05-10)
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• Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel
• Review of War StoriesTemplate:Dead link
• Joe Haldeman at Fantastic Fiction
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• Robert Graham at LC Authorities (no records)

Interviews

• Template: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)