Joe Haldeman

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    July 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Forever War

1 - The Forever War (Dec-1974)
2 - Forever Free (Dec-1999)
Private Mandella (1990)
Lieutenant Mandella (Nov-1991)
Major Mandella (1992)
Forever Peace (Oct-1997)
A Separate War and Other Stories (Aug-2006)

A Marsbound Novel

1 - Marsbound (Aug-2008)
2 - Starbound (Jan-2010)
3 - Earthbound (Dec-2011)

The Worlds Trilogy

1 - Worlds (Apr-1982)
2 - Worlds Apart (Nov-1983)
3 - Worlds Enough and Time (1992)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

Planet of Judgement (Aug-1977)
World Without End (Feb-1979)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • The Private War of Private Jacob

    in Future War
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  • The Forever War

    Forever War - 1

    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 Ear...

  • Mindbridge

    A remarkable alien technology could have devastating consequences for humanity in this novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War. In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known as the Levant-Meyer Tra...

  • Planet of Judgement

    Star Trek

    NEVER BEFORE... Had the Enterprise been betrayed by its own technology. Never before had their systems, instruments and weapons failed to respond. And never before had Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew faced a total breakdown of science ...

  • All My Sins Remembered

    NO CRERTURE IN THE GALAXY IS DEADLIER THAN MAN. Otto McGavin, one of twelve Prime Operators in the universe, worked for the clandestine arm of the trans-space peacekeeping agency as a ruthless guardian of alien rights. He traveled from planet to p...

  • War Year

    A tour of duty through the worst that the world has to offer Before his time as a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before penning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award–winning novels and stories, Joe Haldeman was a so...

  • Study War No More

    Avon Books, 1978. Paperback, first printing. With an introduction by the editor. Stories: Basilisk (1972) by Harlan Ellison; The Dueling Machine (1963) by Ben Bova; A Man to My Wounding (1959) by Poul Anderson; Commando Raid (1970) by Harry Harrison;...

  • World Without End

    Star Trek

    THE MENACE OF CHATALIA Chatalia...a fantastic artificial world, inhabited by furry winged creatures with awesome powers. Here Kirk, Spock and their Enterprise mates, trapped, face terrifying death. And if by some miracle they escape, they will con...

  • Infinite Dreams

    An ancient gypsy puts a curse on all mankind. A cranky Martian Jew takes on the largest corporation in the Galaxy. A Mason jar of home-made booze changes the course of history. A mediocre artist is dragged off to serve jury duty--inside a be...



  • Worlds

    The Worlds Trilogy - 1

     A political conspiracy ensnares a student visiting Earth from an orbiting colony in this classic sci-fi trilogy opener by the author of The Forever War. By the close of the twenty-first century, almost half a million souls have already aba...

  • Worlds Apart

    The Worlds Trilogy - 2

    in the year 2085, one third of the Earth's population was destroyed in World War IV... in one day. Then a deadly plague struck, bringing insanity and horrible death to anyone over the age of eighteen. Citizen Marianne O'Hara of New New York, one of t...

  • Nebula Award Stories

    This anthology of award winners and nominees includes an excerpt from Gene Wolfe's "The Claw of the Conciliator," Poul Anderson's "The Saturn Game," and Michael Bishop's "The Quickening" and stories by John Varley, Jack Dann, William Gibson, and Gard...

  • Body Armor 2000

    CONTENTS: Introduction (Haldeman); Contact! (Drake), The Warbots (Todd), The Scapegoat (Cherryh), The Last Crusade (Smith), Hired Man (Meredith), Early Model (Sheckley), In the Bone (Dickson), The Chemically Pure Warriors (Lang), Right to Life (Easto...

  • Supertanks

  • Tool of the Trade

    Meet Nicholas Foley--distinguished professor, loving husband, model citizen. Meet Nicholas Foley--KGB mole, a man living a dangerous lie behind the smooth facade of a manufactured American identity. Meet Nicholas Foley--secret inventor of an aw...

  • Spacefighters

  • Nebula Award Stories 17

    This anthology of award winners and nominees includes an excerpt from Gene Wolfe's "The Claw of the Conciliator," Poul Anderson's "The Saturn Game," and Michael Bishop's "The Quickening" and stories by John Varley, Jack Dann, William Gibson, and Gard...

  • Time Lapse

    in Blood is Not Enough

    In this stunning new collection, GAHAN WILSON invites two hungry strangers to a beach party. One sports a grin, the other a saw... TANITH LEE invokes a dreadful demon in the mind of a love-starved woman ... JOE HALDEMAN carves a chilling verse of ter...

  • Buying Time

    The Nebula Award"winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money -- and for some, both are running out . . .   The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health ...



  • The Hemingway Hoax

    The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.

    Hemingway's first ...

  • The Forever War, Volume 1

    In his award-winning science fiction novel The Forever War, Joe Haldeman combines his experiences as a soldier during the Vietnam War, in which he was severely wounded, with a realistic, scientifically-accurate presentation. The novel tells of a war ...

  • Worlds Enough and Time

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    The Worlds Trilogy - 3

    WORLDS An Earth plagued by rampant violence, unrest and political fanaticism careens madly toward its ultimate doom. WORLDS APART In the aftermath of war, the insanity that destroyed a world reaches out to touch the inhabitants of one of Earth's...

  • Dealing in Futures

    This collection contains eleven of the author's finest stories, ranging from faraway planets beyond human comprehension to a nightmare future Earth. By the author of The Forever War. Original....

  • 1968: A Novel

    In 1968, a nation fought two wars: one abroad...and one with itself. On one front, Spider walked point and tried to survive an insanity he neither accepted nor understood. On another, his "girl," Beverly, drifted into a strange counterculture that of...

  • None So Blind

    An award-winning visionary and true master of worlds and wonders, the man whom author David Brin calls .,one of the best prophetic writers of our times" once again demonstrates the breathtaking scope and startling power of his imagination--transporti...

  • Forever Peace

    Forever War

    2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages, fought by "soldierboys"--remote control war machines run by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for him, war is indeed hell. The psychological strain of being jacked-in to his so...

  • Forever Free

    Forever War - 2

    A veteran of The Forever War, William Mandella lives on the snow-covered planet set aside for his kind, supporting his family by ice-fishing and teaching physics. But now Mandella's life has become obsolete. The denizens of Earth have evolved into...

  • The Coming

    Astronomy professor Aurora `Rory' Bell gets a message from space that seems to portend the arrival of extraterrestrial visitors. According to her calculations, whoever is coming will arrive in three months--on New Year's Day, to be exact. A crowde...

  • Guardian

    During the Alaskan gold rush, a woman pursues a destiny that will change the world in this alternate-history novel from a sci-fi legend. In the tradition of Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land), multiple Hugo and Nebula Awa...



  • Camouflage

    Unknown to anyone, two creatures have wandered the Earth for generations. The aliens have no knowledge of each other, but share a residual memory of a mysterious, sunken relic--and an affinity for deep water. One, the changeling, has survived by adap...

  • Old Twentieth

    The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity's past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days - when people's bodies were unable to spontaneously heal, and disease and age were actual causes of death. Immer...

  • War Stories

    Hugo and Nebula Award winner Joe Haldeman is one of the most compelling writers to emerge from the Vietnam War. War Stories collects together two novels, several short stories, and two long poems that deal explicitly with Haldeman’s Vietnam and po...

  • A Separate War and Other Stories

    Forever War

    Here are fifteen stories-never before collected- spanning 36 years of Joe Haldeman's award-winning writing...tales that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination. From the first sho...

  • Peace And War

  • The Accidental Time Machine

    Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light, his calibrator disappears -- and reappears, one second later. In fact, every time Matt hits the res...

  • Marsbound

    A Marsbound Novel - 1

    Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppr...

  • Starbound

    A Marsbound Novel - 2

    Carmen Dula and her husband have spent six years travelling to a distant solar system that is home to the enigmatic, powerful race known as "The Others," in the hopes of finding enough common purpose between their species to forge a delicate truce. ...

  • Earthbound

    A Marsbound Novel - 3

    The mysterious alien Others have prohibited humans from space travel-destroying Earth's fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. Now Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter Martians and then the mysterious Others, and her colleagues s...

  • A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

    A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 44: May 2020 Lezli Robyn, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by: Deborah L. Davitt, Eric Miller, Ron Toland, Joe Haldeman, Eric S. Fomley, Robert J. Sawyer, L...



  • Work Done for Hire

    Joe Haldeman’s "adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim” (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy. Now, the mul...

  • Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds

    The author of The Forever War presents a collection of writings ranging from our past in Southeast Asia to our future among the stars. Nebula and Hugo Award"winning author Joe Haldeman burst onto the literary scene with the hugely popular novel The...

  • Future Weapons of War

    A volume of visions of future wars, fought with weapons out of nightmare, by today's top writers of military science fiction, as well as some writers who are not usually associated with military SF, such as best-selling writer Gregory Benford, and aw...

  • Thieves' World

    Missing Game of Thrones? Dare to “be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again” (Book Riot). A classic series for a new generation of fantasy adventure fans, Thieves’ World® ...

  • More Than the Sum of His Parts

    The ultimate collection of classic science fiction stories and poems from the Hugo and Nebula Award"winning author of the Forever War Series.   An omnibus edition of his collections None So Blind and Dealing in Futures, this volume features th...

  • The Mars Girl & As Big as the Ritz

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    THE MARS GIRL (Joe Haldeman)

    Carmen Dula was just like any other girl. Or she used to be, before she spent six months on the spacecraft, John Carter, as part of the first nine families to settle on Mars. )

    Just like any other teenager she was...

Award-Winning Books by Joe Haldeman

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2005 Nebula Award -- Novel
Forever Peace
1998 Hugo Award -- Novel
1998 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
1999 Nebula Award -- Novel
The Forever War
1976 Hugo Award -- Novel
1976 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
1976 Nebula Award -- Novel
None So Blind
1995 Hugo Award -- Short Story
1995 Locus Award -- Short Story
1997 Locus Award -- Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joe Haldeman has published 45 books.

Joe Haldeman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, More Than the Sum of His Parts, was published in July 2020.

The first book by Joe Haldeman, The Private War of Private Jacob, was published in January 1974.

Yes. Joe Haldeman has 3 series.
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