Joe Haldeman

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Joe Haldeman (* 9. June 1943 in Oklahoma City ) is an American science fiction - author .

Life

Haldeman studied physics , astronomy , math, and computer science at the University of Maryland . In 1967 he was drafted to Vietnam for military service. Through his experiences in Vietnam, he became his most famous novel The Forever War inspired (The Forever War), for which he received the Hugo Award , the Nebula Award and the Locus Award received. He later worked out the Eternal War into a trilogy ( The Eternal Peace , At the end of the war ), the second volume of which also received both the Hugo and the Nebula Award. Also known is his Worlds Trilogy, which includes Circling Worlds , Isolated Worlds and Worlds Enough and Time .
His 1993 novel Graves received the World Fantasy Award and the 2004 novel Camouflage received the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award . He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.

Numerous collections of short stories are added to his novels, including Infinite Dreams .

Haldeman currently teaches writing and science fiction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

His older brother, Jack C. Haldeman II , who died in 2002, was also a science fiction writer.

bibliography

Series

The eternal war

• The Forever War (1975)
  • German: The Eternal War . 1977, ISBN 3-453-16414-8 .
• Forever Peace (1997)
  • German: Eternal Peace . 2000, ISBN 3-453-16186-6 .
• Forever Free (1998)
  • German: At the end of the war . 2002, ISBN 3-453-19672-4 .

Attar the Merman

(as Robert Graham)

• Attar's Revenge (1975)
• War of Nerves (1975)

Star Trek

• Planet of Judgment (1977)
  • German: limit to infinity. 1980, ISBN 3-442-23617-7 .
• World Without End (1979)
  • German: World without end. 1980, ISBN 3-442-23613-4 .

Worlds

• Worlds: A Novel of the Near Future (1981)
  • German: Kreisende Welten. 1984, ISBN 3-8118-3633-1 .
• Worlds Apart (1983)
  • German: Isolierte Welten. 1986, ISBN 3-8118-3701-X .
• Worlds Enough And Time (1992)

Marsbound

• Marsbound (2008)
  • German: Marsbound . Translated by Daniel Mayer. Mantikore, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-945493-12-0 .
• Starbound (2010)
• Earthbound (2011)

Novels

• Mindbridge (1976)
  • German: The Thinking Bridge. 1978, ISBN 3-442-23283-X .
• 1968 (1984)
• Tool of the Trade (1987)
• Buying Time (1989)
  • German: Bought life. 1992, ISBN 3-453-05391-5 .
• The Hemingway Hoax (1990)
• The Coming (2000)
• Guardian (2002)
• Camouflage (2004)
  • German: Camouflage . 2012, ISBN 3-939212-25-3 .
• Old Twentieth (2005)
• The Accidental Time Machine (2007)
  • German: Lord of the time . 2012, ISBN 3-939212-18-0 .
• Work Done for Hire (2014)
  • German: Deadly order. 2014, ISBN 978-3939212454 .

Short story collections

• All My Sins Remembered (1977)
  • English: The defiled angel. 1978, ISBN 3-426-05702-6 .
• Infinite Dreams (1978)
  • German: Infinite Dreams. 1985, ISBN 3-453-31142-6 .
• There Is No Darkness (1983)
  • German: And don't fear darkness. 1985, ISBN 3-404-22083-8 .
• Alien Stars (1985, with CJ Cherryh and Timothy Zahn )
• Dealing in Futures (1985)
• Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (1993)
• None So Blind (1996)
• Saul's Death and other Poems (1997)
• A Separate War and Other Stories (2006)

Anthologies

• Cosmic Laughter (1974)
• Study War No More (1977)
• Body Armor: 2000 (1986)
• Supertanks (1987)
• Spacefighters (1988, with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh )
• Future Weapons of War (2007, with Martin H. Greenberg)

Non-fiction

• War Years (1977)
• War Stories (1993)
• The Novel as Joy Ride (2005)

Awards

Hugo Award

• 1976 The Forever War , Best Novel
• 1977 Tricentennial , Best Short Story
• 1991 The Hemingway Hoax , Best Novel
• 1995 None So Blind , Best Short Story
• 1998 Forever Peace , Best Novel

Nebula Award

• 1976 The Forever War , Best Novel
• 1991 The Hemingway Hoax , Best Novel
• 1994 Graves , Best Short Story
• 1999 Forever Peace , Best Novel
• 2005 Camouflage , best novel

World Fantasy Award

• 1993 Graves , Best Short Story

Locus Award

• 1976 The Forever War , Best Novel
• 1977 Tricentennial , Best Short Story
• 1995 None So Blind , Best Short Story
• 1997 None So Blind , Best collection of short stories

John W. Campbell Memorial Award

• 1998 Forever Peace , Best Novel

Rhysling Award

• 1984 Saul's Death , short poem
• 1991 Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh , short poem
• 2001 January Fires , long poem

Other awards :

• 2005 James Tiptree, Jr. Award , Camouflage , Best Novel
• 2009 Robert A. Heinlein Award , Lifetime Achievement
• 2010 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master's Life Achievement

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , pp. 183-185.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 516 f.
• John Clute : Haldeman, Joe. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated September 6, 2017.
• Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , pp. 173-175.
• Albrecht Fritzsche: The American Tradition. Joe Haldeman and the strange trade of science fiction. In: The Worlds of Science Fiction. Corian-Verlag Meitingen, 1988, ISBN 3-89048-313-5 .
• George Mann : The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Robinson, London 2001, ISBN 1-84119-177-9 , pp. 156-159.
• Uwe Neuhold: Master of time. In: The Science Fiction Year 2013. Edited by Sascha Mamczak , Sebastian Pirling and Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-53444-5 , pp. 388-390.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700–1974 with contemporary science fiction authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 927.
• Duncan Lunan: Haldeman, Joe . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 351-535.

Web links

Commons : Joe Haldeman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Joe Haldeman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joe Haldeman in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Joe Haldeman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Joe Haldeman in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Joe Haldeman at Open Library
• Joe Haldeman's website
• Joe's Place - Excerpts from Joe Haldeman's diary (accessed March 12, 2018)
• Joe Haldeman in Fantastic Fiction (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ science fiction awards database - Joe Haldeman . Retrieved November 21, 2017.
2. ↑ 2009 Robert A. Heinlein Award Winners. (No longer available online.) In: locusmag.com. Locus Publications, September 28, 2008, archived from the original on May 7, 2016 ; accessed on November 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.