Joe Haldeman
Legal name: Haldeman, Joseph William
Birth place: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Birth date: 9 June 1943
Language: English
Bibliographic comments: Only Joe Haldeman’s genre titles related to Asia are listed here.
Biographic comments:
Novels
The Forever War
1975
Library edition: October 2001, SF Masterworks hardcover edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-07318-7
Hardcover, 254 pages
£14.99
Notes:
• Winner of the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1976 Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel and the 1976
Ditmar Award for Best International Long Fiction.
• Haldeman describes The Forever War as "an extended metaphor on Vietnam, mainly about the alienation of soldiers
and veterans from the culture they risked their lives to protect – and also about the tendency of powerful weapons to
bite their owners." – essay 'Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds', 1993.
Collections
Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds
1993
Library edition: 1993, 1st edition, 1st printing
NESFA Press
ISBN 0-915368-52-8
Hardcover, xi+223 pages
$17.00
Notes:
• Introduction by Joe Haldeman.
• 'Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds' is an account of Haldeman's experiences serving in the Vietnam War.
• Library copy signed by the author in blue pen on the title page.
• Relevant contents are highlighted in white.
Fiction: Passages // A !Tangled Web // Seasons // The Mazel Tov Revolution
Essays: Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds // Not Being There // Confessions of a Space Junkie // War Stories //
Photographs and Memories
Poetry: Saul's Death // Homecoming // Time Lapse // DX
