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Camouflage
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 2005
Great aliens, blase humans
The strengths of Joe Haldeman's near-future SF novel include complex characterizations of the chameleon and the changeling, a Golden-Age-esque mysterious artifact, and some great humor. I do not normally care for shape-shifters, but Haldeman somehow pulls this off, ...
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The Accidental Time Machine
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 2008
The Accidental Time Machine is a blast
This is the modern version of H.G. Well's Time Machine. Except the scientist happens to discover time travel by accident. A very interesting look into the future. Well written and a definite page turner.
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Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow)
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 1998
straight flowing powerhouse of SF
One interesting note on this book is that it lacks chapter numbers. No big deal really, but when you read the end of one passage and the beginning of the next, the two passages butt up right next to each other. Therefore, it reads just like one story, unhinged and ...
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Old Twentieth
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 2006
sad ... uplifting ... sad
This book starts off sad, goes uplifting for a while then goes sad again. The end of the story is quite the shocker.
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The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
Science Fiction Book Club, 2005
SFBC 50th Anniversay Collection
This book looks rather "science fiction" in nature someone had quite an imaginative idea of what 1997 would be like...here you can read about distant planets and how you jump from one to the other all in the year 1997...did I miss something??? This is rather comediac rather than SciFi because you and I have lived ...
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Guardian
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 2004
Very good but very "quiet" reading
Written as a memoir, much of this book takes place in 19th Century America. Rosa Coleman was a part of high society in Philadelphia. After witnessing her husband sodomizing Daniel, their young son, she picked him up and fled across uncharted America by train and ...
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A Separate War and Other Stories
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 2007
A young writer who became an award winner in his genre.
Joe Haldeman's A SEPARATE WAR AND OTHER STORIES gathers, for the first time, some fifteen tales of Haldeman's best works, from his first short story to later favorites, and will delight and surprise fans who know him best through his full-length award-winning novels ...
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The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
Eos, 2003
A easy and enjoyable SF read--with bonus social commentary
I finally read the classic 1974 sci-fi novel by Joe Haldeman called The Forever War which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1975 and 1976, respectively. These are pretty significant achievements and it would be difficult for a book to live up to them.
This one ...
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Marsbound
Joe Haldeman
Ace Hardcover, 2008
Once again he delivers
About five pages into MARSBOUND I suddenly realized how much I missed "old school" Science Fiction. I think Haldeman is pretty brave** to tackle some of the most covered ground in the genre: humans going to Mars and finding, well, Martians. If you told me last year I ...
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Future Weapons of War (Baen Book)
Baen, 2007
Excellent Compilation of Short Stories: Not Typical Military Science Fiction
Joe Haldeman views writing as a craft, so its no surprise that an anthology of short stories edited by Haldeman would be chosen for their quality and originality. Although Haldeman may be best known for his Science Fiction works such as The Forever War, he has also ...
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Forever Free
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 2000
Great Book
I Loved this book. It gripped me from the beginning and while I was initially disappointed in the ending, it developed in my mind like a fine wine on the tongue. It's a book that I'll never forget.
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The Coming
Joe Haldeman
Ace, 2001
A gem of a novel
In the middle of the 21st Century, Aurora Bell is an Astronomy professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville. One day, she receives a message from outer space ("We're Coming") that seems to herald the arrival of alien visitors. The alien ship is traveling at ...
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All My Sins Remembered (Avon; 39321)
Joe Haldeman
Avon Books, 1983
one of the finest works of sci fi
This is one of the best books I have read and read and read again. It's episodic format lends itself the the unfolding of excellent scenes written well. Sci Fi as if Hemingway were still writing in a new genre.
It has been reprinted in England by Gollancz in 2003 ...
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There Is No Darkness
Joe Haldeman, Jack C. Haldeman II
Ace, 1985
Classic coming of age story
I read this in my late teens and recently went back and re-read it after buying it used through Amazon. It is a science fiction story complete with the Haldeman brothers exacting science (I think I read somewhere that one is a biologist and the other a physicist) but ...
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Hemingway Hoax
Joe Haldeman
Avon Books (Mm), 1991
If you like alternate Time-lines...
... You should read this book. John Baird, a Hemmingway scholar in something of a bind, agrees to produce a forgery of a "lost" work of the great master. Since this would radically change his earth's future, a sort of inter-dimensional hitman is dispatched to kill him. ...
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