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Rising From The Dead: 'Virtuality' Is Back
FILM Florida The potential series earned more trouble last September when author Joe Haldeman claimed "Virtuality" resembled his 2005 novel "Old Twentieth" rather closely. Haldeman's novel centered on a ship called the Aspera, which is on a 1000-year voyage to Beta ...
Fri, May 29 | from Airlock Alpha
Reporter's finely wrought vignettes of Bush's nebulous war on terror
The Forever War – interestingly, the same title Joe Haldeman chose for his 1974 sci-fi parable about the Vietnam war – is a collection of Filkins's eyewitness reporting from the past decade. It does not seek to make sense of 9/11 and all that came ...
Mon, Apr 27 | from irishtimes.com
Heather J. Smith/The Dispatch
NC By November he published the 212-page collection with selections by writers Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman, Tony Ruggiero, Brian W. Aldiss, Larry Niven and other established science-fiction, fantasy and horror authors. "I got quite a few big names for ...
Thu, Mar 26 | from Lexington Dispatch
Fiction you may have missed: Joe Haldeman's
Joe Haldeman’s story, “Lindsay and the Red City Blues,” first appears in Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense (Viking 1980) amidst a panoply of dark tales. Competing with the likes of Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Robert Bloch, and Richard Matheson, ...
Sun, Mar 8 | from Examiner.com
Russell Letson: Take-out, with pickle & extra napkins
CA I will read absolutely anything by Joe Haldeman or John Varley and marvel at how easy they make it look. (I'm married to a writer, so I know it ain't.) So I suppose I don't care what direction the field is headed, as long as the supply of smart, ...
Fri, Feb 6 | from Locus Online
Review of Joe Haldeman’s Novel Marsbound
Jones of The SF Site reviews Marsbound (August 2008), a new novel by author Joe Haldeman. In a balanced analysis, Jones concludes: “Despite my moments of disappointment, I found Marsbound to be quite enjoyable, and I'd even be willing ...
Fri, Nov 7 | from Science Fiction books on Mars
Body Of Lies UK Premiere
UK - One of the projects that has us all in a lather, is Scott’s long awaited adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s 1974 book The Forever War, which has talked recently ...
Fri, Nov 7 | from Empire Online
Book Review: Marsbound by Joe Haldeman : TC Games And More
There’s no doubt but that Haldeman, who’s always been a realist and a hard science man, is doing his best to help prepare us for the reality of space travel, as opposed to the fantasized versions which most science fiction writers ...
Mon, Nov 3 | from TC Games And More
Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
At first, Carmen Dula is thrilled to have the opportunity to travel to Mars with her family, where they'll be part of opening up mankind's next great frontier. Once reality sets in -- that space travel is long, dull, cramped and uncomfortable -- she's not quite as excited, even with the new f...
Tue, Oct 28 | from SF Site
Ridley Scott to adapt Haldeman's Forever War
Ridley Scott has acquired the film-rights to Joe Haldeman's magnificent, Hugo-award-winning classic science fiction novel, The Forever War. This is one of the great anti-war novels of all time. As I wrote about it in 2003, "I picked up a copy of Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War...
Mon, Oct 13 | from Boing Boing
They're Making A Movie of A Classic - Finally!
Which brings me to The Forever War, a book by Joe Haldeman from the 70s that won both the Hugo and Nebula awards (the Oscars for science fiction). Haldeman is a GREAT writer and wrote many great SF books (including Buying Time, ...
Mon, Oct 13 | from Louisville Courier-Journal
Ridley Scott Sees The Future
Written in 1974 by Joe Haldeman, “The Forever War” won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and then he did it again in 1998 with his book “Forever Peace.” Only three other authors have accomplished that feat: Orson Scott Card, ...
Mon, Oct 13 | from Cinema Blend
The Forever War - Ridley Scott Returns to Sci-Fi
Ridley Scott is planning to return to the science fiction genre for the first time since Blade Runner and Alien. Fox 2000 has acquired the rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel The Forever War, which won both the 1975 Nebula Award and the ...
Mon, Oct 13 | from /FILM
Book Review: Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
Book Title: Camouflage | Author: Joe Haldeman | Genre: Science Fiction | Call Number: PS3558.A353 C36 2004 (Shelved in the Recent Fiction Collection in Briggs Library) Millions of years ago, the Changeling came to Earth from a group of stars 10,000 light years distant. It had the abil...
Fri, Sep 26 | from Bloggin'
REVIEW - The Accidental Time Machine, by Joe Haldeman - Post-Weird ...
The Accidental.... is at the same level with The Hemingway Hoax, one of Haldeman´s best work to date. It´s a very good - and scary - book. And also, paradoxical as it may seem, a breeze to read. Highly recommended entertainment by a ...
Tue, Sep 2 | from verbeat.org
Opinion: Recently Read - 4th September 2007
Haldeman is one of my favorite authors. He writes clear, concise prose, crisp dialog and has lots of interesting ideas. But I've been finding with his recent novels, that the endings are getting abrupt. Here's two more examples. Did he reach a word limit? Loose interest? Or what?
Tue, Sep 4 | from blogs.sun.com
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