Joe
Haldeman's
best
known book, "The Forever War" (1975), was one of the first SF works
inspired
by Vietnam. It won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for best novel.
That
and his first book, the autobiographical novel "War Year" (1972), were
based
on his service as a combat engineer from 1967 to 1969 in the US Army in
Vietnam,
where he was severely wounded and received a Purple Heart. His other
works
include "Mindbridge" (1977), the "Worlds" trilogy (Worlds, 1981; Worlds
Apart,
1985; and Worlds Enough and Time, 1992), and "The Hemingway Hoax"
(1990).
A shortened version of the "The Hemingway Hoax" won the Hugo and Nebula
awards
as best novella.
"Graves"
The Forever War
The Forever War
Private William Mandella is a hero in
spite of himself--a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military
unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant
thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders
on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact
that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very
far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even
rise up through the militarys ranks. . .if he survives. But the true
test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the
time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months,
while his home planet is aging centuries--and the difference will prove
the saying: you never can go home. . .
Forever Peace
In
2043, with war still raging on and life on Earth slowly coming to an
end, Julian and his lover, Dr. Amelia Harding, make a great scientific
discovery and quickly devise a plan to end the destruction by stopping
the war machines once and for all.
Forever Free
Sequel
to the Forever
War. Humanity has been utterly transformed by war. William Mandella and
his partner Marygay lived through it, but hate the new world, so they
embark on a journey back through space and time.
Worlds
Worlds
John Harris |
Worlds Apart
Jim
Burns |
Worlds
Enough & Time |
Worlds
At
the end of the 21st century, many people believe the only real hope for
humanity lies in the Worlds: 41 orbiting satellites housing half a
million people. Though the creation of cheap fusion has undermined the
Worlds as a source of solar energy, they still welcome many tourists
and offer plenty of raw materials for export. For example, New New York
is almost pure steel. And, from that city comes Marianne O'Hara, a
brilliant political-science student who has elected to spend a
postgraduate year on Earth--where she unwittingly finds herself caught
up in a group of fanatics looking to start another revolution in
America.even if it means the destruction of the planet.
Worlds Apart
Marianne
O'Hara is back in the orbital World New New York having barely escaped
the war that depopulated most of Earth and destroyed most of the
Worlds. Also surviving is O'Hara's lover, Jeff Hawking who is trapped
on Earth. As Jeff and O'Hara struggle to cope witht the aftermath of
the war and restore their respective societies O'Hara must make a
choice. Should she look for Jeff and try to rebuild Earth? Should she
focus her efforts on restoring New New York and coping with the influx
of refugees? Or should take to the stars in the starship that's being
built?
Worlds Enough
and Time
The
starship Newhome leaves a decimated Earth (and it's orbital Worlds) for
the distant planet in the Epsilon star system. En route the ship
is crippled by several mechanical and social catastrophes: the loss of
their communications with Earth, the baffling church of the Eternal
Now, and plague. And even if they make it to Epsilon, their only hope
is a planet that they know nothing about.
Novels
Mindbridge |
Tool of the Trade
|
Buying Time
James Warren
|
The Hemmingway Hoax
Gary Ruddell
|
The
Coming
Danilo
Ducak |
The
Guardian
Craig White |
Camouflage
Craig White
|
Old Twentieth
Fred Gambino
|
The Accidental Time Machine
Craig White
|
Marsbound
|
Mindbridge (1976)
Jacque LeFavre is a tamer - a member of
one of the tough and honed exploration teams that, since the dramatic
discovery of the Levant-Meyer Translation, humankind has been able to
send to the stars. And Jacque's first world is the second planet out
from Groombridge 1618. It isn't an especially promising place; the
planets accompanying small stars rarely pan out. But the strange and
mysterious creature that Jacque and his colleagues find there, with its
gift of telepathy, leads to contact with the alien and enigmatic
L'vrai, and confronts humankind with an awesome opportunity - and
appalling danger.
1968
(1984)
Tool
of the Trade (1987)
Nicholas
Foley appears to be an ordinary American psychology professor. He is,
in fact, a Russian spy, inserted into the United States after World War
II, joining the American army, attending American universities, falling
in love and marrying an American, but always in touch with his Soviet
superiors. All he ever does in the way of spying is turn in the names
of people who might be ``turned.'' But then he makes his momentous
discovery. He isolates an ultrasonic frequency that causes anyone
within earshot to do whatever he is told. A few demonstrations send
both the Russians and the Americans after Foley with a vengeance.
Eluding both, Foley uses his tool to strike a blow for world peace, as
envisioned by a Sixties hippie, his wife.
Buying Time (1989)/The Long Habit of Living (1989)
Late
in the 21st century, the rich have the option of rejuvenating their
bodies once every decade, as long as they can come up with the
price--everything they own, minimum 1 million. This has made the
Stileman Foundation, which provides the medical makeover, the richest
and most powerful corporation in the world, and has also created an
elite expert in making and sheltering fortunes. One of these
``immortals,'' Dallas Barr, has been invited to join a super-elite
group calling itself the ``Steering Committee,'' but finds instead that
he has been set up for murder. Fleeing with his lover, Maria Marconi,
an immortal who has decided to forgo further rejuvenation and therefore
will die in a few years, Dallas sets himself on the trail of his
would-be assassins, and of the secret someone wishes to keep him from
discovering
The
Hemingway Hoax (1990)
In
a Key West bar, Baird is conned into writing a story in Hemingway's
1920s style, which could be passed off as one of the contents of the
famous valise left on a train by Hemingway's then-wife Hadley.
Returning to Key West from the Hemingway collection at the Kennedy
Library, Baird suddenly finds Ernest Hemingway sitting opposite him in
the train compartment. This is, however, a nonhuman who can take on any
form, and who has come to warn Baird not to finish the Hemingway
pastiche. In a lively, philosophical conversation, the temporal
policeman explains that if Baird continues in his plan he will be
killed. As each attempt to murder him fails, Baird finds himself in a
slightly altered universe--and in one of these supernatural worlds,
Baird evolves into Hemingway himself.
The Coming
Astronomy
professor Aurora Bell gets a message from space that seems to portend
the arrival of extraterrestrials. According to her calculations,
whoever is coming will arrive in three months-on New Year's Day, to be
exact. Earth is in chaos, struggling in the wake of nuclear war and
certainly unprepared to face invasion of any kind. But the more Rory
investigates, the more she doubts the authenticity of the transmission.
If the message is an elaborate hoax, who's behind it, and why? And so
the world waits. But the question remains as to what, exactly, everyone
is waiting for...
The Guardian
In
1879, Rosa Tolliver, a college-educated blueblood, marries a wealthy
man who turns out to be a brute. She flees her Philadelphia mansion
with her 14-year-old son, Daniel, and the two of them make their way to
Dodge City, Kans. Rosa retrospectively describes the trip in incredible
detail: the modes of transportation they took; the people they met; the
books she read. With each carefully placed detail, Rosa weaves the
tapestry of her life, and among the threads, she hints at a destiny:
something extraordinary happens to her, and each book she reads, each
decision she makes, in retrospect has something to do with this destiny.
Camouflage
An
unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea,
stumps the scientists examining it.
But
it calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth
for centuries. Two creatures who have never crossed paths-until now...
Old Twentieth
The
passengers aboard the starship Ad Astra spend most of their time on
the thousand-year journey to Beta Hydrii within the virtual reality of
twentieth-century Earth. There, they can experience nostalgia for the
hardship of a life they've since evolved beyond.
But
when
people inside the virtual reality chamber start to die, engineer Jacob
Brewer finds himself face-to-face with a sentient machine obsessed with
humanity. It has put itself in charge of the ship. And it wants to talk
to Jacob...
The Accidental Time Machine
Grad-school dropout
Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research
assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that
relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his
calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a
girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose
taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.
Marsbound
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