Hold'eman, Joe

Born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City ( Oklahoma ). In 1965 he married Mary Gay Potter. In 1967 he graduated from the University of pc. Maryland College Park. Received diplomas of physicist and astronomer.

In the same year he was drafted into the army, participated in the Vietnam War , where he was seriously wounded. He was awarded the Purple Heart medal. Vietnamese impressions formed the basis of his realistic novel "Year of the War" ( Eng. War Year (1972).

Professionally engaged in literature since 1970. The first sci-fi publication - the story "Out of Phase" (1969).

After demobilization, in 1975 he defended his thesis with a degree in liberal arts at the University of Iowa , and taught at that university. Then he worked as an editor in a publishing house of popular science literature. He currently conducts semester creative science fiction courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Lives in Gainesville ( Florida ).

In his work, Holdeman constantly emphasizes the absurdity and inhumanity of war, criticizing it from the left pacifist positions. The writer brought success to the early anti-war science fiction novel “Hero” (1972), which later was remade into his most famous novel, “ Endless War ” ( English Forever War ), for which he received the “ Hugo ” and “ Nebula ” awards in 1974-1975.

In 2010, director Ridley Scott announced the preparation of a screenplay for the movie Endless War .

Hugo Award

• 1976 for the novel " Endless War " ( Eng. The Forever War , 1975);
• 1977 for the story "Three Centennial " ( English Tricentennial , 1976);
• 1991 for the story " The Hoax with Hemingway " ( Eng. The Hemingway Hoax , 1990);
• 1995 for the story "Blind Love" ( Eng. None So Blind );
• 1998 for the novel " Endless World " ( Eng. Forever Peace , 1997);

Nebula Award

• 1975 for the novel " Endless War " ( Eng. The Forever War , 1975);
• 1990 for the story “The Hoax with Hemingway” ( English The Hemingway Hoax , 1990);
• 1993 for the story "Graves" ( Eng. Graves , 1993)
• 1998 for the novel " Endless World " ( Eng. Forever Peace , 1997);
• 2004 for the novel "Camouflage" ( English Camouflage , 2004)

Locus Award

The author’s works were nominated 41 times for the Locus Prize, but only 4 received the award ^[4] :

• 1976 for the novel " Endless War " ( Eng. The Forever War , 1975);
• 1977 for the story "Three Centennial " ( English Tricentennial , 1976);
• 1995 for the story "Blind Love" from the storybook None So Blind (1996);
• 1997 for None So Blind (1996)

• War Year (1972)
• Attar's Revenge (1975) - under the pseudonym Robert Graham
• War of Nerves (1975) - under the pseudonym Robert Graham
• Endless war ( Eng. The Forever War , 1975) - the first novel from the cycle "Endless war" ( Eng. The Forever War series , 1975-1999)
• The Bridge to the Mind ( English Mindbridge , 1976)
• Remember My Sins ( English All My Sins Remembered , 1977)
• Infinite Dreams (1978) - Storybook
• Planet of Judgement (1977) - a novel from the Star Trek series
• World Without End (1979) - a novel from the Star Trek series
• The Promised Worlds ( Worlds , 1981) - the first novel in the Worlds cycle ( Worlds trilogy , 1981-1992)
• There Is No Darkness (1983) - co-written with Jack Hold'eman II
• Worlds beyond the limits ( Eng. Worlds Apart , 1983) - the second novel from the cycle "Worlds"
• Dealing in Futures (1985) - Storybook
• Tool of the Trade (1987)
• Buying Time (1989) - published in the UK as The Long Habit of Living
• The Hemingway Hoax ( English The Hemingway Hoax , 1991)
• Worlds Invincible ( eng. Worlds Enough and Time , 1992) - the third novel from the cycle "Worlds"
• Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (1993) - a collection of short stories, essays and poems
• 1968 (1995)
• None So Blind (1996) - Storybook
• The Endless Peace ( English Forever Peace , 1997) - the second novel from the cycle “Endless War”, also known as the “Jupiter Project”, in 1998 received the John Campbell Prize
• Saul's Death and Other Poems (1997)
• Endless Freedom ( English Forever Free , 1999) - the third novel from the cycle "Endless War"
• The Coming (2000) - Nominated for the Locus Magazine Award in 2001
• Guardian (2002)
• Camouflage ( English Camouflage , 2004)
• Old Twentieth (2005)
• War Stories (2006) storybook
• A Separate War and Other Stories (2006) - Storybook
• The Accidental Time Machine (2007) - Nominated for the Nebula Prize in 2007, Locus Magazine Award in 2008
• Marsbound (2008) - Nominated for the Locus Magazine Award in 2009

• Holdeman, Joe in the library of Maxim Moshkov
• Joe Holdeman at Fantasy Lab