Joe Haldeman

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Image:JoeHaldeman2005editJM.jpg 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 as a combat engineer in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat and his wartime experience was the inspiration for War Year, his first novel. In 1975, he received a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. 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 also wrote two of the earliest original novels based on the 1960s Star Trek TV series universe, Planet of Judgment (August 1977) and World Without End (February 1979).

Haldeman is the brother of Jack C. Haldeman II (1941-2002), also a science-fiction author whose work includes an original Star Trek novel (Perry's Planet, February 1980).

1 Major awards
2 Selected bibliography
3 External links

[edit] Major awards

[edit] Hugo Award

The Forever War (1976) - Novel
Tricentennial (1977) - Short Story
The Hemingway Hoax (1991) - Novella
"None So Blind" (1995) - Short Story
Forever Peace (1998) - Best Novel

[edit] John W. Campbell Award

Forever Peace (1998) - John W. Campbell Memorial Award

[edit] Nebula Award

The Forever War (1975) - Novel
The Hemingway Hoax (1990) - Novella
"Graves" (1993) - Short Story
Forever Peace (1998) - Novel
Camouflage (2004) - Novel

[edit] Rhysling Award

"Saul's Death" (1984) - Long Poem
"Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1991) - Short Poem
"January Fires" (2001) - Long Poem

[edit] World Fantasy Award

"Graves" (1993) - Short Fiction

[edit] Selected bibliography

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)
Study War No More (1977) - a collection of short stories by various science fiction authors, edited by Joe Haldeman and featuring two stories by him
Planet of Judgement (1977) - a Star Trek novel
All My Sins Remembered (1977)
Infinite Dreams (1978) - short story collection
World Without End (1979) - a Star Trek novel
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
Seasons (novella, 1985) - published in Alien Stars, Elizabeth Mitchell, ed.
Tool of the Trade (1987)
Buying Time (1989) - published in the UK as The Long Habit of Living
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 chapbook
Forever Free (1999)
The Coming (2000)
Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) - as editor
Guardian (2002)
Camouflage (2004)
Old Twentieth (2005)
War Stories (2006) - short story collection
A Separate War (2006) - short story collection