Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman
Joe William Haldemanis an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War. That novel, and other of his works including The Hemingway Hoaxand Forever Peace, have won major science fiction awards including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. For his career writing science fiction and/or fantasy he is a SFWA Grand Master and since 2012 a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth9 June 1943
CountryUnited States of America
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!
[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.
Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.
All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.
Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.