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Author: Joe Haldeman
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/07/2014
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Joe Haldeman
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/07/2014
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Joe Haldeman is an American author of award-winning science fiction and nonfiction works and a part-time professor at MIT. He earned a BS in physics and astronomy, as well as an MFA in writing. Drafted into the military, he served in Vietnam as a combat engineer in 1968 and 1969, was severely wounded, and earned a Purple Heart. His experience in war and in returning to civilian life are themes he uses in much of his writing. He is the author of numerous novels and several series, including the Forever War series. His science fiction has earned many awards, including five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, a Locus Award, three Rhysling Awards, a World Fantasy Award, and a James Tiptree Jr. Award. Haldeman was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2009, received the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 2010, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.
The only good thing about having a major snowstorm knock out power to your house for three days is that you can really catch up on your reading. Thankfully once the Kindle ran out of juice I still had a stack of stuff from the library as well as some recent purchases from a used book store to keep f......more
This is a near-future novel & a disappointment. I read The Forever War when it first came out & Haldeman is - at least in my mind - a futuristic writer, but almost all the technology was today's. Actually, some was rather clunky by today's standards & some important abilities that should have been c......more
Sort of macho, simplistic prose (with some stereotypical "machoisms"), but it has meta-meta-fiction and I've liked Haldeman's SciFi work. This one seems to be more crime fiction (crime story within a story of an author with another crime on top). Very little SF so far, although a brief discussion of......more
Jumped on this after seeing it in the new paperbacks section of the library. Having recently read, and greatly enjoyed, The Forever War, I was happy to see something much more recent from Joe Haldeman. That being said, the description made it seem more like a thriller than a science-fiction novel, s......more
EMMMM m'ha encantaaat el llibree. Després de llegir 2o3 llibres que erenn mehh, un porfiin m'ha agradat. És un veterano snipper de la guerra on va perdre un dit ii li van donar la baixa. Després va escriure uns quants llibres sobre realment com era ser un snipper i matar a gent, però no van tenir molt......more