Joe Haldeman

Work Haldeman's first book was a 122-page novel, War Year, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in May 1972. The novel was sold with the help of fellow writer Ben Bova. It was based on his letters home from Vietnam and was marketed as mainstream and young adult.

Haldeman has written at least one produced Hollywood movie script. The film, a low-budget science fiction film called Robot Jox, was released in 1990. He was not entirely happy with the product, saying "to me it's as if I'd had a child who started out well and then sustained brain damage".

In a 2016 interview, Haldeman said, "Jack of all trades, master of none I think. It's a way to go. Not all writers go that way, but many of them do. On a day-to-day basis I wake up in the morning and I can do anything I feel like doing. I don't say, uh oh, I've gotta get back to that damn novel again. I can always write a poem or something. ... "

Major awards The Science Fiction Writers of America officers and past presidents selected Haldeman as the 27th SFWA Grand Master in 2009, and he received the corresponding Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement as a writer during Nebula Awards weekend in 2010.

His filk song "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" received a Pegasus Award in 2005.

He received the Inkpot Award in 1991.

Hugo Award The Forever War (1976) – novel "Tricentennial" (1977) – short story The Hemingway Hoax (1991) – novella "None So Blind" (1995) – short story Forever Peace (1998) – novel

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Forever Peace (1998) – novel The Hemingway Hoax (1990) – novella "Graves" (1993) – short story Forever Peace (1998) – novel

Locus Award The Forever War (1976) None So Blind (1997) Locus Award for Best Collection

Rhysling Award "Saul's Death" (1984) – long poem "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1991) – short poem "January Fires" (2001) – long poem

World Fantasy Award "Graves" (1993) – Short Fiction

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Camouflage (2004)

Pegasus Award "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)" (2005) – Best Space Opera Song