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Born in
Oklahoma 9 June 1943. Grew up in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D. C.,
and Alaska. Currently lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge,
Massachusetts with his wife Gay Haldeman. As of August 2000, they will have
been married thirty-five years. Education B. S. in
astronomy, University of Maryland, 1967. Graduate work there in math/computer
science, 1969-70; no degree (dropped out to write). Went to the Iowa Writers
Workshop for an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 1975. Teaching Currently
Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (teach writing every
fall semester). Visiting Professor, MIT, Writing Department, 1983-84. One
semester of Rhetoric ("Bonehead English") at the University of
Iowa, as well as an advanced course and writing workshop in modern science
fiction. Have also taught writing workshops at Michigan State (Clarion),
Clarion West Seattle, SUNY Buffalo, Princeton, University of North Dakota,
Kent State, and the University of North Florida. At UNF I taught a workshop
in writing the novel. At MIT I am teaching a science fiction writing workshop
and (in alternate years) Reading and Writing Longer Fiction and Reading and
Writing Genre Fiction. (In college, tutored astronomy, mathematics, and
English; coached the fencing team, and taught classical guitar at a music
store.) Military Drafted
1967, fought in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam as a combat engineer with
the 4th Division (1/22nd Airmobile Bn.). Purple Heart and other standard
medals. Jobs All
part-time, mostly teaching. Have also worked as statistician's assistant
(HEW), librarian, computer programmer, musician, laborer, occasional platform
speaker and consultant. (In the spirit of Eric Sevareid's definition: a
consultant is any ordinary guy fifty miles away from home.) For one
disastrous month I was Senior Editor of Astronomy magazine (best issue they
ever put out). Have considered myself a full-time writer since 1970, except
for that short editorial excursion. I try to write a little every day even
while teaching at MIT. Books
My next
novel, THE ACCIDENTAL TIME MACHINE, will come out from Ace in 2007. In
addition, I wrote two adventure novels for Pocket Books, under the
"house name" Robert Graham. Many of these books are still in print.
Every volume has appeared or will appear as a paperback (Pocket, Ballantine,
Bantam, Avon, Ace). Various of the titles have been published in as many as
19 foreign languages. The novel MINDBRIDGE reputedly sold to paperback for a
record advance (since surpassed) for a science fiction novel. I
collaborated on an adventure novel, THERE IS NO DARKNESS, with my brother,
Jack C. Haldeman II. WORLDS,
WORLDS APART, and WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME comprise what I consider to be my
best work, a trilogy that I worked on from 1975 to 1992. Ace published the
novel FOREVER FREE in December '99, and will bring out THE COMING this
December. A few
dozen of my short stories, novelettes, and novellas have appeared in various
science fiction magazines, along with a few appearances in
"mainstream" magazines like Playboy. My songs and poetry come out
mostly in tiny little magazines, with one poem in Harper's and two in Omni.
Articles and editorials have appeared in various magazines and newspapers (an
article on the space shuttle won the Analog Readers' Poll for "best
nonfiction" of the year). I'll write just about anything but criticism.
(Actually, I have written criticism, but always limiting myself to writers I
can praise without reservation.) Theatrical Adaptations Movie
options have been taken on various titles, and the movie rights to THE
FOREVER WAR were bought in '97, but it's dormant right now. I adapted THE
FOREVER WAR for live stage; it opened in Chicago, October '83, done by the
Organic Theater Company (and didn't lose money, which is unusual for a first
shot). I've written a few short movie and TV things for Disney, but none has
been produced. A short story, "I of Newton," appeared on the
Twilight Zone show in 1985. I wrote the screenplay for a science fiction
adventure film that was released on about 800 screens on 21 November 1990.
Over my strong objections, they titled it ROBOT JOX (I wanted to call it THE
MECHANICS, but they didn't think that was sci-fi enough.) Awards THE
FOREVER WAR won the Hugo, Nebula, and Ditmar Awards as Best Science Fiction
Novel of 1975. "Tricentennial" won the Hugo Award for Best SF Short
Story of 1976. In 1978, MINDBRIDGE won the Galaxy Award for "Science
Fiction and Spirituality." "Saul's Death" won the Rhysling
Award for best science fiction poem of the year, 1983. "The Hemingway
Hoax" novella won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella of 1990.
THE HEMINGWAY HOAX novel won the Italian "Futuro Remoto"Award as
Best Novel of 1991. "Eighteen Years Old, October 11th" won the
Rhysling Award for 1990. "Graves" won the World Fantasy Award and
the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1993. "None So Blind" won
the short story Hugo in 1995. FOREVER PEACE won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W.
Campbell Awards in 1998, the first such "triple crown" in 22 years.
"January Fires" won the Rhysling Award in 2002. CAMOUFLAGE won the 2006 Nebula Award
and the James Tiptree Award (for science fiction or fantasy about gender
issues). Organizations Member of
Author's Guild, Writer's Guild, Science Fiction Writers of America, National
Space Society (on Board of Advisors), Space Studies Institute. Served as SFWA
Treasurer for 2-1/2 years; Chairman of their Grievance Committee for 18
months; President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America,
1992-1994. Travel Most of
the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America,
the Arctic, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and various Pacific
Islands. Guest of honor at science fiction conventions in Melbourne,
Australia; Ghent, Belgium; Glasgow and Edinborough, Scotland; Wellington, New
Zealand; Timisoara, Romania; Alboraia, Spain; Freiburg, Germany, and Lisbon,
Portugal. In 1982 visited the USSR as a guest of the Soviet Writers Union. In
1986 did a lecture tour of Yugoslavia for the US Information Agency. In 1990
was Guest of Honor at the annual World Science Fiction Convention in The
Hague, Netherlands. Pastimes Travel,
obviously. Omnivorous and indiscriminate reading. Cooking for daily
relaxation. Casino gambling (won a poker tournament in Nassau, 1989). Amateur
astronomy, drawing and painting, guitar playing; a lot of bicycling and a
little fishing, canoeing, swimming, and snorkeling. Email to
Joe can be sent to haldeman"at"mit.edu |
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