Joe Haldeman is a Vietnam veteran whose classic novels The Forever War and Forever Peace both have the rare honor of having won the Hugo and Nebula awards. He has served twice as president of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and is currently an adjunct professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the Marsbound Trilogy (Marsbound, Starbound, Earthbound), The Accidental Time Machine, Old Twentieth, A Separate War and Other Stories, and Camouflage.
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“This fast-paced novel will please Haldeman devotees while
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“Haldeman’s experience and skill show in his effortless
characterization and tense plotting.”—Publishers Weekly
“Haldeman takes you into the broken mind of a man who has seen
terrible things that have changed him…It makes for an intriguing
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...and for Joe Haldeman, Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and John W.
Campbell Awards
“If there was a Fort Knox for the science fiction writers who
really matter, we’d have to lock Haldeman up there.”—Stephen
King
“Haldeman has long been one of our most aware, comprehensive, and
necessary writers. He speaks from a place deep within the
collective psyche and, more importantly, his own. His mastery is
informed with a survivor’s hard-won wisdom.”—Peter Straub
“Haldeman remains a nimble, necessary figure in sci-fi’s
pantheon.”—Entertainment Weekly
“[Haldeman’s] prose is laconic, compact, seemingly offhand but
quite precise…Like the grammar of cinema, it is a mode that looks
natural and even easy but requires exacting skill.”—The Washington
Post
“One of science fiction’s most reliable practitioners.”—San
Francisco Chronicle
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