Jack C. Haldeman II

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Jack Carroll "Jay" Haldeman II (born December 18, 1941 in Hopkinsville , Kentucky , † January 1, 2002 in Gainesville , Florida ) was an American biologist and science fiction writer. He was the older brother of science fiction writer Joe Haldeman .

Life

Jack Haldeman studied environmental engineering and biology at the University of Oklahoma and graduated from Johns Hopkins University . During his scientific career he was involved in parasitology , conducted field studies on whales in the Canadian Arctic , studies on the greenhouse effect and coordinated the design of a website and CD on agriculture in Florida. The tapeworm Hymenolepis haldemani is named after him.

Haldeman has published over 100 short stories; his first Garden of Eden appeared in Fantastic magazine in December 1971 . He is known for dealing with sports topics in the context of science fiction, for example in the story Home Team Advantage , published in 1977 in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine . His Hochstahl , a collaboration with Jack Dann , was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1982 .

In 1971 Haldeman became a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and subsequently led eight SF Conventions. In 1996 he received the Phoenix Award for his life's work . He was married to the writer Barbara Delaplace , with whom he also worked.

He died of cancer in the Hospice of North Central Florida in Gainesville .

Works

Novels
  • Vector Analysis (1978)
    • German: The foreign virus . Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5729, 1980, ISBN 3-426-05729-8 .
  • Perry's Planet ( Star Trek / Bantam # 11, 1980)
    • English: Captain Perry's Planet . Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 366), 1985, ISBN 3-8118-3406-1 .
  • High Steel (1982, with Jack Dann)
    • German: Hochstahl . In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Dinosaurs on Broadway. Heyne SF&F # 4027, 1983, 3-453-30967-7.
  • The Iceworld Connection ( Spaceways # 11, 1983, with Vol Haldeman and Andrew J. Offutt , under the community pseudonym John Cleve )
  • There Is No Darkness (1983, with Joe Haldeman)
    • German: And don't fear darkness . Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22083, 1985, ISBN 3-404-22083-8 .
  • The Fall Of Winter (1985)
  • Echoes Of Thunder (1991, with Jack Dann)
  • … On the Planet of Zombie Vampires ( Bill, the Galactic Hero # 4, 1991, with Harry Harrison )
Short stories
  • Garden of Eden (1971)
  • Watchdøg (1972)
  • What I Did on My Summer Vacation (1973)
  • Chang Bhang (1973)
  • Slugging It Out (1974)
  • Sand Castles (1974)
  • What time is it? (1975)
  • Laura's Theme (1975)
  • Songs of Dying Swans (1976)
  • Limits (1976, with Jack Dann)
  • Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (1977)
  • Louisville Slugger (1977)
  • Vector Analysis (1977)
  • Home Team Advantage (1977)
  • The End-of-the-World-Rag (1977)
  • The Thrill of Victory (1978)
  • The Agony of Defeat (1978)
  • Mortimer Snodgrass Turtle (1978)
  • What Weighs 8000 Pounds and Wears Red Sneakers? (1978)
  • Thirty Love (1978)
  • Last Rocket From Newark (1978)
  • Longshot (1979)
  • Snakes and Snails (1979)
  • Star School (1979, with Joe Haldeman)
  • Starschool on Hell (1979, with Joe Haldeman)
  • To Race the Wind (1979)
  • A Scientific Fact (1979)
    • German: a scientific fact. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Focus on the future 2. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31042, 1982, ISBN 3-548-31042-7 .
  • What Kind of Love Is This? (1979)
  • Hear the Crash, Hear the Roar (1979)
  • Spring Fever (1980)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
  • Eight Ball Blues (1980)
  • Games Children Play (1981)
  • Executive Clemency (1981, with Gardner Dozois)
  • Playing for Keeps (1982)
  • Wet Behind the Ears (1982)
  • Monkey Business (1983)
  • On the Rebound (1983)
  • Open Frame (1983)
  • We, the People (1983)
  • My Crazy Father Who Scares All the Women Away (1983)
  • Judgment Day (1984)
  • Cube Root (1984)
  • Still Frame (1984)
  • A Very Good Year (1984)
  • Rats in Space (1985)
  • The Rosy-Cheeked Girl Who Danced on the Deck of the Titanic (1985)
  • The Funny Trick They Played on Old McBundy's Son (1986, with George Alec Effinger)
  • Dead Man's Tie (1987)
  • Blue Story (1989)
  • Quartet for Strings and an Occasional Clarinet (1991)
  • Echoes of Thunder (1991, with Jack Dann)
  • Enemy of the State (1991)
  • Line Item on a Dead Grant (1991)
  • Ghost Town (1992)
  • Short Count in Chicago (1992)
  • Lonesome Homesick Blues (1992)
  • By the Sea (1992)
  • Gut Reaction (1992)
  • Ashes to Ashes (1992)
  • The Raven Teaches the Professor a Lesson (1992)
  • Aladdin and the Lost City (1992)
  • Dirt Track Demon (1992)
  • Death of a Dream (1993)
  • The Cold Warrior (1993)
  • Thunder-Being (1993, with Jack Dann)
  • A Later Date (1994)
  • Last Things First (1994)
  • South of Eden, Somewhere Near Salinas (1994)
  • Ma Teresa and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang (1994)
  • True Grits (1995)
  • That'll Be the Day (1996, with Barbara Delaplace)
  • History Lesson (1997)
  • If Pigs Could Fly (1997)
  • Southern Discomfort (1998)
  • In Finnegan's Wake (2002)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SWFA obituary ( Memento from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Haldeman, Jack C. II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haldeman, Jack Carroll (full name); Haldeman, Jay (alternative spelling); Cleve, John (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hopkinsville , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2002
Place of death Gainesville , Florida