The Forever War by Joe Haldeman William Mandella, a genius studying physics, has been drafted into the elite division of the United Nations Exploratory Force, which is fighting a seemingly never-ending war with the Taurans. After strenuous training with other elites on the Earth and in space, William and his colleagues are sent on various […]
Read MoreKat Hooper and Stuart Starosta | Joe Haldeman | Audio, Hugo Award, Nebula Award | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman For the life of me, I can’t understand why Forever Peace won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for Best science fiction novel in 1998. Certainly Joe Haldeman’s earlier 1975 The Forever War is a beloved science fiction classic that deals with the Vietnam War, time paradoxes, and […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 1 | Joe Haldeman | Hugo Award, Nebula Award | SFF Reviews | | 8 comments |
Forever Free by Joe Haldeman Joe Haldeman’s 1974 The Forever War and 1997 Forever Peace were huge successes for the author, winning many of science fiction’s most prestigious awards, not to mention garnering him a solid fan base in the process. Though they share similar sounding titles and a military motif, little else between the […]
Read MoreJesse Hudson´s rating: 2.5 | Joe Haldeman | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Buying Time by Joe Haldeman Dallas Barr is a Stileman — one of the few humans who’ve paid a million pounds and given up all their assets to have their bodies rejuvenated. These folks need the process repeated every decade or so, so they spend that decade earning the money needed for the next treatment. […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Joe Haldeman | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman While on vacation in Key West, John Baird, a Hemingway scholar, meets a conman named Castle in a bar. After telling Castle about Hemingway’s missing manuscript, Castle suggests that they forge it and make a lot of money. Baird refuses, of course, but Castle enlists Baird’s wife Lena and […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Joe Haldeman | Audio, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman How did Joe Haldeman’s Camouflage beat Susanna Clarke’s monumental work Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell for the Nebula Award in 2005? Granted, I haven’t read that book, but I have read many glowing reviews from my fellow FanLit reviewers and Goodreads friends. It was also made into a major BBC miniseries […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 2 | Joe Haldeman | Audio, Nebula Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Best of Joe Haldeman edited by Jonathan Strahan Stories by Joe Haldeman are always a good things and Subterranean Press has recently put out this “Best of” collection edited by Jonathan Strahan. The hardcover book has 504 pages and includes a general introduction by Joe Haldeman and 19 of his stories. Each story also […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Joe Haldeman, Jonathan Strahan | Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Lightspeed Magazine is edited by the formidable John Joseph Adams, who has produced a long series of wonderful anthologies and is soon to launch a new horror magazine. One might be concerned that such a busy schedule would mean that something would get short shrift, but if that is the case, it certainly isn’t Issue […]
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It’s not the magazine that’s horrible; it’s that the magazine contains horror fiction. A perfect mood setter for Halloween! Because Wednesday is Halloween, here’s another serving of the new magazine Nightmare, edited by John Joseph Adams. The second issue of this new online magazine makes me think we’ve got something special going here: the fiction […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna | Joe Haldeman, John Langan, Peter Straub | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week: “The Loud Table” by Jonathan Carroll (Nov. 2016, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) A group of retired old men meets every day at a coffee shop to hang out most of […]
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The Best of Analog edited by Ben Bova The Best of Analog is filled with high-caliber stories by all-star writers: Alfred Bester, Roger Zelazny, George R.R. Martin, Vonda McIntyre, Gene Wolfe, and more. Published in 1978, this anthology contains three novellas, ten shorts, and one poem — pieces that have by and large stood the test of time on […]
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Warriors edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois FORMAT/INFO: Warriors is 736 pages long divided over twenty short stories and an Introduction by George R.R. Martin. Each short story is preceded by biographical information about the author and a short description of their contribution to the anthology. March 16, 2010 marks the North American Hardcover […]
Read MoreRobert Thompson (RETIRED) and Greg Hersom´s rating: 4.5 | Carrie Vaughn, Cecelia Holland, David Weber, Diana Gabaldon, Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin, James Clemens, Joe Haldeman, Joe R. Lansdale, Naomi Novik, Peter S. Beagle, Robert Silverberg, Robin Hobb, S.M. Stirling, Tad Williams | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 7 comments |
The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 edited by Kevin J. Anderson The Nebula Awards are one of the great institutions in science fiction and fantasy. Each year since 1965, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have voted for the Best Novel, Novella (40,000-17,500 words), Novelette (17,500-7,500 words), and Short Story […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Amal El-Mohtar, Connie Willis, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, Kevin J. Anderson, Kij Johnson, Michael Bishop, N.K. Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Rachel Swirsky, Richard Bowes, Saladin Ahmed, Will McIntosh | Nebula Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Old Venus by Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois’s themed anthologies are some of the most popular on the market these days. Soliciting the genre’s best-known mainstream writers, selecting highly familiar themes, and letting the length run to 500+ pages, Rogues, Warriors, Dangerous Women, Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and others are […]
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The 48th Annual Nebula Awards weekend was held by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the San Jose Convention Center in northern California from May 17 through 19, 2013. Terry Weyna and I, who both live in Northern California and both are aspiring writers, decided to see what a bunch of published […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds | Aliette De-Bodard, Connie Willis, E.C. Myers, Gene Wolfe, Joe Haldeman, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Rachel Swirsky, Robert Silverberg, Saladin Ahmed, Sarah Beth Durst, Steven Gould, Terry Bisson, William C. Dietz | Nebula Award | Convention | | 4 comments |
Worlds — (1981-1992) Publisher: Towards the end of the twenty-first century 41 Worlds, small satellites with a total population of half a million, orbit the Earth, which has seen many changes, not least of which is a second revolution in America. Marianne O’Hara, a brilliant political sciences student, is from New New York, a hollowed […]
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