American science fiction writer (born 1943)
Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is anAmerican science fiction author .
He is best known for his novelThe Forever War Vietnam War . That novel and other works, includingThe Hemingway Hoax Forever Peace science fiction awards, including theHugo Award andNebula Award .[ 2] SFWA Grand Master for career achievements.[ 2] [ 3] Science Fiction Hall of Fame .[ 4]
From 1983 to 2014, he was a professor teaching writing at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Gay Haldeman at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki in 2017 Haldeman was born inOklahoma City ,Oklahoma .[ 5] Puerto Rico ,New Orleans ,Washington, D.C. ,Bethesda (Maryland) andAnchorage (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 aBachelor of Science degree inPhysics andAstronomy from theUniversity of Maryland in 1967.[ 6]
He was immediatelydrafted into theUnited States Army . Serving as acombat engineer in theVietnam War , he was wounded in combat and received aPurple Heart .[ 7] debut novel ,War Year; his later novels such asThe Hemingway Hoax andThe Forever War, continued to explore the experience of soldiers in wartime and after returning home.
In 1975, he received aMaster of Fine Arts degree inCreative Writing from theUniversity of Iowa Writers' Workshop .[ 8]
Haldeman has resided alternately inGainesville, Florida , andCambridge, Massachusetts . From 1983 until his retirement in 2014,[ 9] Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[ 10] [ 11] The Accidental Time Machine [ 12]
In 2009 and 2010, Haldeman was hospitalized forpancreatitis .[ 13] [ 14]
Haldeman's first book was a 122-page novel,War Year , published byHolt, Rinehart and Winston in May 1972. The novel was sold with the help of fellow writerBen Bova . It was based on his letters home from Vietnam and was marketed as mainstream andyoung adult .[ 15] The Forever War St. Martin's Press , 1974), which was inspired by his Vietnam experiences and originated as his MFA thesis for theIowa Writers' Workshop . It won the year's "Best Novel"Hugo ,Nebula andLocus Awards .[ 2] sequels .
In 1975, two Attar novels were published asPocket Books paperback originals under the pen name Robert Graham.[ 1] Star Trek Planet of Judgment World Without End
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 1969Galaxy magazineAmazing Stories The Twilight Zone [ 15]
Haldeman has written at least one produced Hollywood movie script. The film, a low-budget science fiction film calledRobot Jox [ 16] [ 17]
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. ... "[ 18]
TheScience Fiction Writers of America officers and past presidents selected Haldeman as the 27th SFWA Grand Master in 2009, and he received the correspondingDamon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement as a writer during Nebula Awards weekend in 2010.[ 2] [ 3] 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 theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past president.[citation needed [ 19]
Hisfilk song "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" received aPegasus Award in 2005.[ 20]
He received theInkpot Award in 1991.[ 21]
"Saul's Death" (1984) – long poem "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1991) – short poem "January Fires" (2001) – long poem "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" (2005) – Best Space Opera Song War Year (1972) – nongenre Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differMindbridge (1976) – Hugo nominee, placed second in annualLocus Poll[ 2] All My Sins Remembered (1977)There is No Darkness (1983) – cowritten with Jack C. Haldeman IITool of the Trade Buying Time (1989) – published in the UK asThe Long Habit of Living The Hemingway Hoax 1968 (1994) (novel) – Vietnam War novelThe Coming (2000) – Locus SF nominee, 2001[ 27] Guardian (2002)Camouflage [ 28] Old Twentieth (2005)The Accidental Time Machine [ 29] Locus Poll[ 2] Work Done For Hire (2014)The Forever War (Nebula Awardwinner , 1975;[ 24] winner , 1976[ 22] "A Separate War" (1999, short story; appeared first in 1999 in the anthologyFar Horizons War Stories andA Separate War and Other Stories )(The story of Marygay Potter after she parts withWilliam Mandella inThe Forever War Forever Free (a direct sequel to the first novel) Attar (the Merman) series[ edit ] Attar's Revenge (1975)(published under the pseudonym Robert Graham) War of Nerves (1975)(published under the pseudonym Robert Graham) Forever Peace series[ edit ] Forever Peace (Nebula Awardwinner , 1998;[ 23] winner , 1998;[ 23] winner , 1998[ 23] The Forever War Forever Peace is not set in the same universe) "Forever Bound" (2010, short story; appears in the anthologyWarriors )(a prequel toForever Peace Short fiction collection [ edit ] Infinite Dreams (1978)Dealing in Futures (1985)Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (1993)None So Blind A Separate War and Other Stories (2006)The Best of Joe Haldeman (2013)The Forever War Mark van Oppen (better known asMarvano ) (original editionLa Guerre éternelle (1988–1989))Forever Free drawn by Marvano (original editionLibre à jamais (2002))Dallas Barr Buying Time (1996–2005)Collections Saul's Death and Other Poems . 1997.List of poems Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Rounder 2013 Haldeman, Joe (March 2013). "Rounder".Asimov's Science Fiction .37 (3): 105. Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015) 2015 Haldeman, Joe (November 2015). "Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015)".Analog Science Fiction and Fact .135 (11): 59.
^a b Joe Haldeman at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved April 4, 2013.^a b c d e f g h "Haldeman, Joe" Archived August 22, 2007, at theWayback Machine .Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees .Locus Publications . Retrieved April 4, 2013.^a b "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master" Archived March 8, 2013, at theWayback Machine . Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved April 4, 2013.^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 July 22, 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-19.^ "Summary Bibliography: Joe Haldeman" .www.isfdb.org .^ According to the author's note (page 278) in the SF-novelThe Accidental Time Machine ^ "Joe Haldeman |" .www.joehaldeman.com .^ "Macmillan entry for author" . RetrievedOctober 22, 2013 .^ Whitacre, Andrew (September 16, 2014)."Slideshow: Joe Haldeman's retirement party" .MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing . MIT. RetrievedJune 15, 2021 . ^ "Faculty" .Writing and Humanistic Studies . MIT. RetrievedNovember 26, 2013 .^ Haldeman, Joe."[homepage]" .Joe Haldeman [website] . RetrievedNovember 26, 2013 . ^ "Joe Haldeman: Art for Art's Sake" .Locus . October 2001. RetrievedOctober 13, 2008 .^ Hamit: LepreCon 38: A Con The Way They Used To Be . File770.com.[full citation needed ^ "Sci-fi legend Joe Haldeman in intensive care" . September 24, 2009. Archived fromthe original on December 16, 2009.^a b Autobiographical ramble Archived December 31, 2017, at theWayback Machine by Joe Haldeman^ "Robot Jox" . IMDB. RetrievedDecember 31, 2008 .^ Michael McGraw-Herdeg (October 17, 2008)."Prof. Haldeman's Novel 'Forever War' Picked Up By 20th Century Fox Film" .The Tech . Archived fromthe original on September 5, 2012. RetrievedDecember 31, 2008 . ^ Joy Ward interviews Joe Haldeman Archived June 3, 2016, at theWayback Machine ,Galaxy's Edge magazine, January 2016^ "Foxhole Pizza and Interstellar Quail: Cooking the Books with Joe and Gay Haldeman" . Sfwa.org.[page needed ^ "Pegasus Awards - Ballad of Stan Long" .www.ovff.org .^ Inkpot Award ^a b c "1976 Award Winners & Nominees" .Worlds Without End . RetrievedMay 17, 2009 .^a b c d e f "1998 Award Winners & Nominees" .Worlds Without End . RetrievedMay 17, 2009 .^a b "1975 Award Winners & Nominees" .Worlds Without End . RetrievedMay 17, 2009 .^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees" .Worlds Without End . RetrievedMay 17, 2009 .^ World Fantasy Convention."Award Winners and Nominees" . Archived fromthe original on August 18, 2000. RetrievedFebruary 4, 2011 . ^ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees" .Worlds Without End . RetrievedMay 17, 2009 .^ "2005 Award Winners & Nominees" .Worlds Without End . RetrievedMay 17, 2009 .^ "2007 Award Winners & Nominees" .Worlds Without End . RetrievedMay 17, 2009 .
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1975–2000 "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal " byRobert Aickman (1975) "Belsen Express " byFritz Leiber (1976) "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding " byRussell Kirk (1977) "The Chimney " byRamsey Campbell (1978) "Naples " byAvram Davidson (1979) "Mackintosh Willy " byRamsey Campbell (1980, tie) "The Woman Who Loved the Moon " byElizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie) "The Ugly Chickens " byHoward Waldrop (1981) "The Dark Country " byDennis Etchison (1982, tie) "Do the Dead Sing? " byStephen King (1982, tie) "The Gorgon " byTanith Lee (1983) "Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) " byTanith Lee (1984) "The Bones Wizard " byAlan Ryan (1985, tie) "Still Life with Scorpion " byScott Baker (1985, tie) "Paper Dragons " byJames Blaylock (1986) "Red Light " byDavid J. Schow (1987) "Friend's Best Man " byJonathan Carroll (1988) "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station " byJohn M. Ford (1989) "The Illusionist " bySteven Millhauser (1990) "A Midsummer Night's Dream " byNeil Gaiman andCharles Vess (1991) "The Somewhere Doors " byFred Chappell (1992) "Graves " byJoe Haldeman (1993, tie) "This Year's Class Picture " byDan Simmons (1993, tie) "The Lodger " byFred Chappell (1994) "The Man in the Black Suit " byStephen King (1995) "The Grass Princess " byGwyneth Jones (1996) "Thirteen Phantasms " byJames Blaylock (1997) "Dust Motes " byP. D. Cacek (1998) "The Specialist's Hat " byKelly Link (1999) "The Chop Girl " byIan R. MacLeod (2000) 2001–present
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