Joe Haldeman#Life

{{Short description|American science fiction writer (born 1943)}}

{{Infobox writer

|name = Joe Haldeman

|image = Joe Haldeman Finncon2007 cropped.jpg

|caption = Haldeman at Finncon 2007

|pseudonym = Robert Graham

|birth_name = Joe William Haldeman

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|06|09}}

|birth_place = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.

|occupation = Writer

|education = University of Maryland (BS)

|period = 1972–present

|genre = Science fiction

|movement = Military sci-fi

|notableworks = The Forever War

|spouse = Mary Gay Potter (m. 1965)

|relatives = Jack C. Haldeman II, brother

|website = {{URL|joehaldeman.com}}

}}

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author and former college professor. He is best known for his novel The Forever War (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War. That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. He received the SFWA Grand Master for career achievements. In 2012, he was inducted as a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. From 1983 to 2014, he was a professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Life

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Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27|title=Summary Bibliography: Joe Haldeman|website=www.isfdb.org}} His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda (Maryland) and Anchorage (Alaska) as a child. He had to repeatedly start classes as a new kid in local schools.

In 1965, Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known as Gay Haldeman. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967.According to the author's note (page 278) in the SF-novel The Accidental Time Machine

He was immediately drafted into the United States Army. Serving as a combat engineer in the Vietnam War, he was wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart.{{Cite web|url=https://www.joehaldeman.com/|title=Joe Haldeman ||website=www.joehaldeman.com}} He struggled to adjust to civilian life after returning home. His wartime experience inspired his debut novel, War Year; his later novels such as The Hemingway Hoax and The Forever War, continued to explore the experience of soldiers in wartime and after returning home.

In 1975, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.{{cite web |title=Macmillan entry for author |url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/joehaldeman |access-date=October 22, 2013}}

Haldeman has resided alternately in Gainesville, Florida, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1983 until his retirement in 2014,{{cite web |last1=Whitacre |first1=Andrew |title=Slideshow: Joe Haldeman's retirement party |url=https://cmsw.mit.edu/slideshow-joe-haldemans-retirement-party/ |website=MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing |publisher=MIT |access-date=June 15, 2021 |date=September 16, 2014}} he was an adjunct professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).{{cite web|title=Faculty|url=http://writing.mit.edu/people/faculty|work=Writing and Humanistic Studies|publisher=MIT|access-date=November 26, 2013}}{{cite web|last=Haldeman|first=Joe |title=[homepage]|url=http://www.joehaldeman.com|work=Joe Haldeman [website]|access-date=November 26, 2013}} He set his 2007 novel, The Accidental Time Machine at MIT. Haldeman is also a painter.{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/2001/Issue10/Haldeman.html | title=Joe Haldeman: Art for Art's Sake |work=Locus |date=October 2001 |access-date=October 13, 2008}}

In 2009 and 2010, Haldeman was hospitalized for pancreatitis.[http://file770.com/?tag=joe-haldeman Hamit: LepreCon 38: A Con The Way They Used To Be]. File770.com. {{full citation needed|date=September 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.keepingthedoor.com/2009/09/24/sci-fi-legend-joe-haldeman-in-intensive-care |title=Sci-fi legend Joe Haldeman in intensive care |date=September 24, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216193729/http://www.keepingthedoor.com/2009/09/24/sci-fi-legend-joe-haldeman-in-intensive-care/ |archive-date=December 16, 2009}}

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 mainstream and young adult. 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 for the Iowa Writers' Workshop. It won the year's "Best Novel" Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. He later wrote sequels.

In 1975, two Attar novels were published as Pocket Books paperback originals under the pen name Robert Graham. 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).

In a college creative writing class in 1967, Haldeman wrote the first two SF stories which he (later) sold. "Out of Phase" was published 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."[http://www.joehaldeman.com/biography/autobiographical-ramble Autobiographical ramble] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231212506/http://www.joehaldeman.com/biography/autobiographical-ramble |date=December 31, 2017 }} by Joe Haldeman

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/ |publisher=IMDB |title=Robot Jox |access-date=December 31, 2008}} 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".{{cite news |url=http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N48/foreverwar.html |title=Prof. Haldeman's Novel 'Forever War' Picked Up By 20th Century Fox Film |author=Michael McGraw-Herdeg |newspaper=The Tech |date=October 17, 2008 |access-date=December 31, 2008 |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905130238/http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N48/foreverwar.html |url-status=dead }}

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 gotta get back to that damn novel again. I can always write a poem or something. ... "[http://www.galaxysedge.com/jarch.htm Joy Ward interviews Joe Haldeman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603023124/http://www.galaxysedge.com/jarch.htm |date=June 3, 2016}}, Galaxy's Edge magazine, January 2016

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. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in June 2012.

He has also won numerous annual awards for particular works.

He is a lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and past president.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}[http://www.sfwa.org/2012/12/foxhole-pizza-and-interstellar-quail-cooking-the-books-with-joe-and-gay-haldeman "Foxhole Pizza and Interstellar Quail: Cooking the Books with Joe and Gay Haldeman"]. Sfwa.org. {{page needed|date=September 2014}}

His filk song "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" received a Pegasus Award in 2005.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/ballad-of-stan-long.html|title=Pegasus Awards - Ballad of Stan Long|website=www.ovff.org}}

He received the Inkpot Award in 1991.[https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot Inkpot Award]

= [[Hugo Award]] =

The Forever War (1976){{cite web

| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1976

| title = 1976 Award Winners & Nominees

| work = Worlds Without End

| access-date=May 17, 2009

}} – novel

"Tricentennial" (1977) – short story
The Hemingway Hoax (1991) – novella
"None So Blind" (1995) – short story
Forever Peace (1998){{cite web

| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1998

| title = 1998 Award Winners & Nominees

| work = Worlds Without End

| access-date=May 17, 2009

}} – novel

= [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel]] =

Forever Peace (1998)

= [[Nebula Award]] =

The Forever War (1975){{cite web

| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1975

| title = 1975 Award Winners & Nominees

| work = Worlds Without End

| access-date=May 17, 2009

}} – novel

The Hemingway Hoax (1990) – novella
"Graves" (1993) – short story
Forever Peace (1998) – novel
Camouflage (2004){{cite web

| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2004

| title = 2004 Award Winners & Nominees

| work = Worlds Without End

| access-date=May 17, 2009

}} – novel

= [[Locus Award]] =

The Forever War (1976) – SF novel

= [[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{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818214437/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 18, 2000 |access-date=February 4, 2011 }}

= [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] =

Camouflage (2004)

= [[Pegasus Award]] =

"The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" (2005) – Best Space Opera Song

Bibliography

=Non-series=

War Year (1972) – nongenre Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differ
Mindbridge (1976) – Hugo nominee, placed second in annual Locus Poll
All My Sins Remembered (1977)
There is No Darkness (1983) – cowritten with Jack C. Haldeman II
Tool of the Trade (1987)
Buying Time (1989) – published in the UK as The Long Habit of Living
The Hemingway Hoax (1990)
1968 (1994) (novel) – Vietnam War novel
The Coming (2000) – Locus SF nominee, 2001{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2001|title=2001 Award Winners & Nominees|work=Worlds Without End|access-date=May 17, 2009}}
Guardian (2002)
Camouflage (2004) – Nebula Award winner, 2005{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2005|title=2005 Award Winners & Nominees|work=Worlds Without End|access-date=May 17, 2009}}
Old Twentieth (2005)
The Accidental Time Machine (2007) – Nebula Award nominee, 2007;{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2007|title=2007 Award Winners & Nominees|work=Worlds Without End|access-date=May 17, 2009}} placed fifth in annual Locus Poll
Work Done For Hire (2014)

=[[The Forever War series|''Forever War'' series]]=

The Forever War (1974) (Nebula Award winner, 1975; Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1976)
"A Separate War" (1999, short story; appeared first in 1999 in the anthology Far Horizons; collected in 2006 in War Stories and A Separate War and Other Stories) (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=

Attar's Revenge (1975) (published under the pseudonym Robert Graham)
War of Nerves (1975) (published 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) (Nebula Award winner, 1998; John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel winner, 1998; Hugo Awards winner, 1998) (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=

Marsbound (2008) (also serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact) – placed fifth in annual Locus Poll)
Starbound (2010)
Earthbound (2011)

=Short fiction collection=

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 edited=

Cosmic Laughter (1974)
Study War No More (1977)
Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983)
Body Armor: 2000 (1986) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
Supertanks (1987) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
Space-Fighters (1988) (with Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg)
Future Weapons of War (2007) (with Martin H. Greenberg)

=Comics=

The Forever War drawn by Mark van Oppen (better known as Marvano) (original edition La Guerre éternelle (1988–1989))
Forever Free drawn by Marvano (original edition Libre à jamais (2002))
Dallas Barr drawn by Marvano based on Buying Time (1996–2005)

=Poetry=

;Collections

{{cite book |title=Saul's Death and Other Poems |year=1997 }}

;List of poems

class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'
width=25%\|Title !\|Year !\|First published !\|Reprinted/collected
Rounder \|2013 \|{{cite journal \|author=Haldeman, Joe \|date=Mar 2013 \|title=Rounder \|journal=Asimov's Science Fiction \|volume=37 \|issue=3 \|pages=105}} \|
Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015) \|2015 \|{{cite journal \|author=Haldeman, Joe \|date=November 2015 \|title=Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015) \|journal=Analog Science Fiction and Fact \|volume=135 \|issue=11 \|pages=59}}

class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'

width=25%|Title

!|Year

!|First published

!|Reprinted/collected

Rounder

|2013

|{{cite journal |author=Haldeman, Joe |date=Mar 2013 |title=Rounder |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=105}}

Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015)

|2015

|{{cite journal |author=Haldeman, Joe |date=November 2015 |title=Ecopoiesis (NIAC Symposium 2015) |journal=Analog Science Fiction and Fact |volume=135 |issue=11 |pages=59}}

References

{{reflist |refs=

{{isfdb name |27}} (ISFDB). Retrieved April 4, 2013.

[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit57.html#2182 "Haldeman, Joe"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822134157/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit57.html |date=August 22, 2007 }}. Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved April 4, 2013.

[http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/events-program/grandmaster/ "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308182313/http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/events-program/grandmaster/ |date=March 8, 2013 }}. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved April 4, 2013.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110519225800/http://www.empmuseum.org/exhibitions/index.asp?categoryID=203 "Science Fiction Hall of Fame: EMP Museum Announces the 2012 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees"]. May/June 2012. EMP Museum (empmuseum.org). Archived July 22, 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-19.

}}

External links

{{Library resources box|by=yes|about=no|onlinebooks=no|onlinebooksby=no}}

{{Official website|www.joehaldeman.com}}
[https://sites.google.com/site/joehaldemansf/biography/autobiographical-ramble "Autobiographical Ramble"], 16,600 words
[https://archive.today/20130112203823/http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=xover&group=sff.people.joe-haldeman&from=-10/Joe Daily diary on sff.net]
[http://joe-haldeman.livejournal.com/ Blog on LiveJournal]
{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510121118/http://www.empmuseum.org/at-the-museum/museum-features/science-fiction-hall-of-fame/members/joe-haldeman.aspx |date=May 10, 2013 |title=Joe Haldeman }} at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (archived 2013-05-10)
{{isfdb name|27}}
{{IBList|type=author|id=747|name=Joe Haldeman}}
[http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=24#books Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel]
[http://moviesbooksandmusic.today.com/2009/06/04/war-stories-by-joe-haldeman/ Review of War Stories]{{dead link|date=January 2017}}
[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/joe-w-haldeman Joe Haldeman] at Fantastic Fiction
{{LCAuth|n50018607|Joe Haldeman|46|}}
[http://lccn.loc.gov/no2008085202 Robert Graham] at LC Authorities (no records)

=Interviews=

{{YouTube|W5y632DJ5J4|Authors@ Google: Joe Haldeman}} as part of the [https://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html Authors@Google series] (2007)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110715195912/http://www.hardsciencefiction.rogerdeforest.com/?mode=8&id=3 Interview] conducted by Roger Deforest (2006)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070112150719/http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/415/ The Craft of Science Fiction] hosted by [http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum MIT Communications Forum] (2006)
[http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/?search_string=haldeman&Submit=Search&search=1 All of Joe Haldeman's audio interviews on the podcast The Future And You] (in which he describes his expectations of the future)