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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 curious about her new home-who wouldn't be?-but she did her schoolwork, enjoyed time with her friends, and she started to explore the red planet with the supervision of her guide and friend, Paul Santos; always...
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Horton's elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick's "Triceratops Summer," which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet's "Bliss," an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Several selections address current political-social issues,...
3) Mindbridge
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The discovery of a remarkable alien technology light years from Earth could have devastating consequences for humanity in this science fiction classic by the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel The Forever War In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known as the Levant-Meyer Translation changes everything. Suddenly people can leap instantaneously across the universe, albeit temporarily, enabling teams of Tamers to...
4) Forever Free
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Veterans of the intergalactic Forever War must brave an alien universe to escape mind-control slavery in this thrilling far-future sci-fi adventure. On virtually every list of the greatest military science fiction adventures ever written, Joe Haldeman's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic, The Forever War, is ranked at the very top. In Forever Free, the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and author of the acclaimed Worlds series returns...
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 36: January 2019
Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Elly Bangs, Austin DeMarco, Robert Silverberg, Dan Koboldt, Edward M. Lerner, Jane Yolen, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Thomas K. Carpenter, Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, Todd McCaffrey, Joy Kennedy-O'Neill. Christopher Blake, Joe Haldeman
Serialization: Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 42: January 2019Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Sean Patrick Hazlett, P.A. Cornell, Joe Haldeman, Robert P. Switzer, Larry Hodges, Mercedes Lackey, Tara Calaby, Liviu Surugiu, Gregory Benford, Michael A. Clark, Robert SilverbergSerialization: Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. ChalkerColumns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory BenfordRecommended Books:...
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 41: November 2019
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Nick DiChario, Eric S. Fomley, Nancy Kress, Kimberly Unger, Anthony George, Joe Haldeman, K.G. An-derson, George Nikolopoulos, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, Veronica Brush, Larry Hodges, Mercedes Lackey
Serialization: Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 32: May 2018
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories: Effie Seiberg, Alex Shvartsman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Laurence Raphael Brothers, Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, Gardner Dozois, Walter Dinjos, Leah Cypess, Kij Johnson, Brian K. Lowe, Brian Trent, Joe Haldeman, Barry N. Malzberg
Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
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ISSUE 40: September 2019
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Sean Patrick Hazlett, Jon Lasser, Nancy Kress, Eric Margerum, Mercedes Lackey, S.R. Mandel, Gregory Benford, Janis Ian, J.W. Alden, P.G. Galalis, Joe Haldeman
Serialization: Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Richard Chwydyk
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Kevin...
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 39: July 2019
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Lou J Berger, Shawn Proctor, Joe Haldeman, Floris M. Kleijne, Christopher L. Bennett, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, R.D. Harris, Eleanor R. Wood, Rick Norwood, Nancy Kress, Auston Habershaw, Robert Jeschonek, Kevin J. Anderson
Serialization: Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory...
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An omnibus edition of his collections None So Blind and Dealing in Futures, this volume features the best of Joe Haldeman's short speculative fiction, including such gems as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "The Hemingway Hoax," in which a forged Hemingway manuscript takes the reader on a journey through time and multiple universes; the Hugo and Locus Award-winning "None So Blind;" the World Fantasy and Nebula Award-winning "Graves;" and the Rhysling...
12) Worlds
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By the author of The Forever War: In the near future, an idealistic young student visiting Earth from an orbiting colony becomes ensnared in radical politics and a dark conspiracy of violent destruction By the close of the twenty-first century, almost half a million souls have already abandoned Earth to live in satellites orbiting the strife-ridden planet. Each of these forty-one Worlds is an independent entity boasting its own government and culture,...
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In the far future, a young man of peace is transformed into an intergalactic killer by the nightmarish technologies of an omnipotent government organization, in this powerful and provocative science fiction classic from the award-winning author of The Forever War Once Otto McGavin was a kind and gentle soul; then he was recruited by the all-powerful Confederación. An ultrasecretive, government-linked organization, the Confederación's stated mission...
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By the author of The Forever War: In the decades following the ultimate conflict, the last remnants of humanity face extinction on a doomed voyage to a new home in the stars, in the momentous conclusion to Joe Haldeman's acclaimed Worlds saga The Earth is no more, an uninhabitable shell following the one-day war that obliterated the population. In the decades that followed, the surviving Worlds orbiting the dead planet have become the last refuge...
15) Worlds Apart
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By the author of The Forever War: In the breathtaking sequel to Worlds, a survivor of the terrible conflict that destroyed the Earth and most of its satellite Worlds must work to save the human race from extinction The war that destroyed everything lasted a single day. After an initial nuclear strike, the Earth's population was further devastated by an insidious bioweapon targeting anyone above the age of puberty. Now most of what's left of human...
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An engaging tour through the work and life of one of America's great science fiction writers Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author Joe Haldeman burst onto the literary scene with the hugely popular novel The Forever War, but his career also took off on the strength of his short fiction. This brilliant collection brings together examples of his science fiction as well as his writing on Vietnam-and reveals the inexorable connections between the two....
17) Guardian
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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 Award winner Joe Haldeman set a new standard for military science fiction and hard sci-fi with The Forever War and his phenomenal Worlds series. Now the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master dabbles...
18) The Forever War
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Winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award: He went off to war, but the Earth he came back to wasn't the one he left behind Man has taken to the stars. Deep in space, humans discover the fearsome Taurans after a transport ship is destroyed. To combat the threat, humanity sends in the United Nations Exploratory Force-a highly trained unit built for revenge. Conscripted into the service, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet against...
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A young man must fight-literally-for the opportunity to escape his backwater home planet and journey to the stars. A towering young giant growing up on a high-gravity world of perilous plants and savage creatures, Carl Bok is thrilled when he's offered a one-year scholarship to Starschool. As a new student aboard the space-traveling institution, Carl will get the opportunity to visit and learn from sixteen colonized worlds. Best of all, he'll finally...
20) Buying Time
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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 to your aging, ailing body-as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and...
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