Joe Haldeman

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Image:Joe Haldeman 2005.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 master of fine arts 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 is the brother of the late Jack C. Haldeman II, also a science fiction author.

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Major awards

The Forever War (1975) Nebula Award, Novel
The Forever War (1976) Hugo Award, Best Novel
Tricentennial (1977) Hugo Award, Best Short Story
Saul's Death (1984) Rhysling Award, Long Poem
The Hemingway Hoax (1990) Nebula Award, Novella
The Hemingway Hoax (1991) Hugo Award, Best Novella
Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh (1991) Rhysling Award, Short Poem
Graves (1993) Nebula Award, Short Story
Graves (1993) World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction
None So Blind (1995) Hugo Award, Best Short Story
Forever Peace (1998) John W. Campbell Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Forever Peace (1998) Hugo Award, Best Novel
Forever Peace (1998) Nebula Award, Novel
January Fires (2001) Rhysling Award, Long Poem

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Partial chronological listing of books:

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
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 collection
Forever Free (1999)
The Coming (2000)
Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) - as editor
Guardian (2002)
Camouflage (2004)
Old Twentieth (2005)