Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.
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).
Books in order of publication:
Non-series
War Year (1972) – nongenre Vietnam War novel, hardcover and paperback endings differ
Mindbridge (1976)
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
Guardian (2002)
Camouflage (2004) – Nebula Award winner, 2005
Old Twentieth (2005)
The Accidental Time Machine (2007)
Work Done For Hire (2014)
Forever War series
The Forever War (1974)
Forever Free (1999)
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)
Marsbound trilogy
Marsbound (2008)
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)
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