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The Accidental Time Machine
by Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman "has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time" ( Rocky Mountain News ). Now he delivers a provocative novel of a man who stumbles upon the discovery of a lifetime-or many lifetimes. Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic... (more)
The Coming
by Joe Haldeman
From the depths of space comes a startling message: "We're Coming." On the brink of war and hysteria, Earth must prepare for the arrival. But the question still remains as to who-or what-will actually arrive... "His most successful and rewarding book in years." (Jonathan Strahan, Locus ) "A large-scale story <that> provides food for thought as well as fast-paced action." ( Library Journal )
Forever War: Book 2
Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow)
by Joe Haldeman
2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one--not a terrifying prospect, but a tempting one. Featured on the "Locus" Recommended Reading list and selected by "Publishers Weekly" as one of the best books of the year.
Far Futures
by Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford, one the great SF writers of our day, has assumed the mantle of editor to produce an ambitous hard SF anthology: Far Futures . Many of the fields's greatest works concern vast perspectives, expanding our visions of ourselves by foreseeing the immense panorama of time. This anthology collects five orignal novellas that take the very long view, all set at least ten thousand years in the future. The... (more)
Old Twentieth
by Joe Haldeman
The passengers aboard the starship Ad Astra spend most of their time on the thousand-year journey to Beta Hydrii within the virtual reality of twentieth-century Earth. There, they can experience nostalgia for the hardship of a life they've since evolved beyond. But when people inside the virtual reality chamber start to die, engineer Jacob Brewer finds himself face-to-face with a sentient machine obsessed... (more)
Forever War
A Separate War and Other Stories
by Joe Haldeman
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 short story Haldeman ever sold, "Out of Phase," to "A Separate War," which revisits a character from his classic novel The Forever War , to his personal favorite, "For... (more)
Camouflage (Ace Science Fiction)
by Joe Haldeman
Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it. Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home--but the Chameleon has decided there's only room for one.
Forever War: Book 1
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
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 Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will... (more)
Forever War: Book 3
Forever Free
by Joe Haldeman
The brilliant sequel to The Forever War, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. From Joe Haldeman, the all-time master of military science fiction, comes the new novel set in the universe of his Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic The Forever War. An epic story about war, peace, and the price of freedom, Forever Free reintroduces readers to William Mandella--who has been living peacefully on the planet... (more)
Worlds: Book 1
Worlds (Gollancz SF S.)
by Joe Haldeman
"The incredibly detailed future world that Haldeman has created is fascinating and.both spellbinding and funny."- -Science Fiction Review A "story of the near future" from a Hugo and Nebula Award winner--and one of the most prestigious science fiction writers ever. At the end of the 21st century, many people believe the only real hope for humanity lies in the Worlds: 41 orbiting satellites housing half a million... (more)
1968
by Joe Haldeman
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 offered her dangerous freedoms at the price of her innocence. In 1968, a great black leader was murdered on a balcony in Memphis...a political convention in Chicago was... (more)
Worlds Enough and Time: The Conclusion of the Worlds TrilogyJoe Haldeman
Worlds: Book 3
Worlds Enough and Time: The Conclusion of the Worlds Trilogy
by Joe Haldeman
In the last volume of the parable of Earth's destruction and humanity's doomed flight from it, Mariane O'Hara frantically records the lives of her family and contemporaries when most of the earth's history and literature is wiped out from computer banks.
The Hemingway Hoax
by Joe Haldeman
Devotees of SF and literary mystery will enjoy this fast-paced, well-thought-out adventure that takes a college professor and Hemingway scholar on an eerie journey to coexisting universes. Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Haldeman ( The Forever War ) has written a tale that twists upon itself like a Moebius strip, with characters reenacting their lives in each slightly different, slightly worse universe. In a Key West... (more)
None So Blind
by Joe Haldeman
An award-winning visionary and true master of worlds and wonders, the man whom author David Brin calls "one of the nest prophetic writers of our times" once again demonstrates the breathtaking scope and startling power of his imagination--transporting the reader across space and time, into the heart of darkness and the soul of madness. From the spinetingling account of an intergalactic poacher's rite of passage,... (more)
Dealing in Futures
by Joe Haldeman
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.
Study War No More: A Selection of Alternatives
by Joe Haldeman
The Guardian
by Joe Haldeman
In the late nineteenth century, a seemingly ordinary woman embarks on an extraordinary adventure in the Alaskan gold fields--after her destiny is revealed to her by something not of this world.
Worlds: Book 2
Worlds Apart
by Joe Haldeman
In New New York during the one-day World War that inflicted everyone over eighteen with madness and death, Marianne is torn between her desire to aid her lover and her duty to humankind. Reprint. NYT.
Buying Time
by Joe Haldeman
One of the foremost practitioners of "hard" science fiction, Haldeman offers his first novel in five years, a mystery/SF hybrid that exhibits the author at his most inventive and also, at times, his least involving. Late in the 21st century, the rich have the option of rejuvenating their bodies once every decade, as long as they can come up with the price--everything they own, minimum 1 million. This has made the... (more)
Infinite dreams
by Joe Haldeman
Haldeman, one of the more interesting younger science-fiction novelists (The Forever War, All My Sins Remembered) is also a short-story writer of brisk ability. Whether he is dealing with a nuclear blackmail of nuclear powers, an attempt at personality-reconstruction through "overlay therapy," or a computer trying to stymie a gypsy curse, he breezes through the narrative with an effortlessly appropriate pacing... (more)

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