Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.
Easton Press Joe W. Haldeman books
Forever War - Masterpieces of Science Fiction - 1988
Buying Time - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 1989
The Coming - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2000
Forever Peace - Masterpieces of Science Fiction - 2002
Guardian - Signed First Edition of Science Fiction - 2002
Camouflage - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2004
Old Twentieth - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2005
The Accidental Time Machine - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2007
Starbound - Signed First Editions of Science Fiction - 2010
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Author Joe Haldeman
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, known as "Gay", in 1965. He received a BS degree in Physics and 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; also later books such as "The Hemingway Hoax" and "Old Twentieth" deal extensively with the experience of combat soldiers in Vietnam and other wars. In 1975, he received an MFA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He resides in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches writing at MIT. In addition to being an award-winning writer, Haldeman is a painter.
Writing
Haldeman's most famous novel is The Forever War (1974), 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). In October 2008 it was announced that Ridley Scott will direct a feature film based on The Forever War for Fox.
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. 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".
He is a lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past-president.
Haldeman is the brother of Jack C. Haldeman II (1941–2002), also a science-fiction author whose work included an original Star Trek novel (Perry's Planet, February 1980).
Joe Haldeman books in order
Stand alone books
War Year (1972)
Mindbridge (1976)
All My Sins Remembered (1977)
There Is No Darkness (1983)
Tool of the Trade (1987)
Buying Time (1989)
The Hemingway Hoax (1990)
1968 (1994)
The Coming (2000)
Guardian (2002)
Camouflage (2004)
Old Twentieth (2005)
The Accidental Time Machine (2007)
Work Done for Hire (2014)
Forever War series
The Forever War (1974)
A Separate War (1999, short story)
Forever Free (1999)
Attar The Merman series
Attar's Revenge (1975 under the pseudonym Robert Graham)
War of Nerves (1975 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)
Forever Bound (2010, short story prequel)
Marsbound trilogy
Marsbound (2008)
Starbound (2010)
Earthbound (2011)
Short fiction
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
Cosmic Laughter (1974)
Study War No More (1977)
Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983)
Body Armor: 2000 (1986)
Supertanks (1987)
Space-Fighters (1988)
Future Weapons of War (2007)
Comics
The Forever War drawn by Mark van Oppen
Forever Free drawn by Marvano
Dallas Barr drawn by Marvano
Poetry Collection
Saul's Death and Other Poems (1997)
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