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For the CBS television producer involved in the David Letterman blackmail accusation, see Joe Halderman.
Joe Haldeman
Haldeman at Finncon 2007
Haldeman at Finncon 2007
Born (1943-06-09) June 9, 1943 (age 81)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Pen nameRobert Graham[1]
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1972–present
GenreScience fiction
Literary movementMilitary sci-fi
Notable worksThe Forever War series, The Hemingway Hoax, Camouflage, The Accidental Time Machine
RelativesJack C. Haldeman II, brother
Website
www.joehaldeman.com

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War. That novel, and other of his works including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.[2] For his career writing science fiction and/or fantasy he is a SFWA Grand Master[2][3] and since 2012 a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.[4]

Many of Haldeman's works, including his debut novel War Year and his second novel The Forever War, were inspired by his experience serving in the Vietnam War, where he was wounded in combat, and by his adjustment to civilian life after returning home.

Life

Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington DC, Bethesda (Maryland), and Anchorage (Alaska) as a child. In 1965, Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known as "Gay". He received a BS degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967.[5]

He was immediately drafted into the United States Army, and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart.[6] His wartime experience was the inspiration for War Year, his first novel; also later books such as The Hemingway Hoax and Old Twentieth which 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.[7]

Haldeman resides alternately in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1983, he has been an Adjunct Professor teaching writing[8][9] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is also the fictional setting for his 2007 novel, The Accidental Time Machine. In addition to being an award-winning writer, Haldeman is a painter.[10]

In 2009 and 2010, he was hospitalized for pancreatitis.[11][12]

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).

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 both mainstream and Young Adult.[13] 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]el was sold to ] for the Iowa Writers' Workshop. It won the year's "Best Novel" Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards.[2] He later turned it into a series. In 1975, two Attar novels were published as Pocket Books paperback originals under the pen name Robert Graham.[1] 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).

Haldeman wrote the first two SF stories that he (later) sold, in a college creative writing class in 1967. "Out of Phase" appeared 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."[13]

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.[14] 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".[15]

In a 2014 post on his official website's news page, Haldeman evoked the release of his (then) latest novel to date entitled Work Done for Hire and stated that he was «currently working on [a new work entitled] Phobos Means Fear» and that he had «a few other novels in different stages of incompletion».[16]

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 get back to that damn novel again. I can always write a poem or something. ... " [17]

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.[2][3] The 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 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past-president.[citation needed][18]

Hugo Award

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

  • Forever Peace (1998)[20]

Nebula Award

Locus Award

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[23]

James Tiptree, Jr. Award

Bibliography

Forever War series

  • The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975;[21] Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1976[19])
  • "A Separate War" (1999, short shory; appeared first in the anthology Far Horizons, now collected in War Stories and A Separate War and Other Stories (2006)) (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

Worlds series

Forever Peace series

  • Forever Peace (1997) (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

Star Trek: The Original Series novels

Non-series

Short fiction collection

Anthologies edited

Comics

  • The Forever War drawn by Marvano (aka Mark van Oppen); this is a three-part graphic novel adaptation of the original novel (original edition La Guerre éternelle (1988–1989))
  • A New Beginning drawn by Marvano; this new trilogy series is strongly connected to the novel Forever Free (a follow-up to The Forever War), and the short story "A Separate War" (original edition Libre à jamais (2002))
  • Dallas Barr drawn by Marvano based on Buying Time (1996–2005)

Poetry

Collections

  • Saul's Death and Other Poems (1997)

List of poems

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Rounder 2013 Haldeman, Joe (Mar 2013). "Rounder". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (3): 105. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Joe Haldeman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2013-04-04. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Haldeman, Joe". Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
  3. ^ a b "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved 2013-04-04.
  4. ^ 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 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
  5. ^ According to the author's note (page 278) in the SF-novel The Accidental Time Machine
  6. ^ Joe Haldeman
  7. ^ "Macmillan entry for author". Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  8. ^ "Faculty". Writing and Humanistic Studies. MIT. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  9. ^ Haldeman, Joe. "[homepage]". Joe Haldeman [website]. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  10. ^ "Joe Haldeman: Art for Art's Sake". Locus Online. October 2001. Retrieved 2008-10-13. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ Hamit: LepreCon 38: A Con The Way They Used To Be. File770.com. [full citation needed]
  12. ^ "Sci-fi legend Joe Haldeman in intensive care". September 24, 2009. Archived from the original on December 16, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ a b Autobiogaphical ramble by Joe Haldeman
  14. ^ "Robot Jox". IMDB. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  15. ^ Michael McGraw-Herdeg (October 17, 2008). "Prof. Haldeman's Novel 'Forever War' Picked Up By 20th Century Fox Film". The Tech. Retrieved 2008-12-31. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ "News & Calendar". www.joehaldeman.com. 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  17. ^ Joy Ward interviews Joe Haldeman, Galaxy's Edge magazine, January 2016
  18. ^ "Foxhole Pizza and Interstellar Quail: Cooking the Books with Joe and Gay Haldeman". Sfwa.org. [page needed]
  19. ^ a b c "1976 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  20. ^ a b c "1998 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  21. ^ a b "1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  22. ^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  23. ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2000-08-18. Retrieved 2011-02-04. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  24. ^ "2001 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  25. ^ "2005 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  26. ^ "2007 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
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