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Joe William Haldeman es un escritor estadounidense de ciencia ficción nacido el 9 de junio de 1943 en la ciudad de Oklahoma.

De niño viajó con su familia por diversos lugares de Estados Unidos como Puerto Rico, Nueva Orleans, Washington, D.C., Maryland o Alaska.

En 1967 se graduó en Física, más concretamente en la especialidad de astronomía, en la Universidad de Maryland. Ese mismo año sería llamado a filas para participar en la Guerra de Vietnam, donde fue condecorado con el Corazón Púrpura. Como muchos otros combatientes, Haldeman salió malparado del conflicto: fue gravemente herido por una mina.

Esta situación vital le condujo a la literatura. Haldeman decidió contar sus experiencias en la guerra en su primer libro . Cuando más tarde comenzó a escribir ciencia ficción, también este género quedaría impregnado de sus inquietudes. Su primera novela de ciencia ficción, La guerra interminable, no sólo es --como han escrito muchos críticos-- "una revisión del conflicto del Vietnam en clave de ciencia ficción", sino una obra profundamente antibelicista.

El éxito de La guerra interminable, que logró los premios Hugo, Nébula y Locus, le convirtió en un reputado autor de ciencia ficción, labor que ha continuado hasta la actualidad, aunque alternada esporádicamente con otro tipo de trabajos. Obtuvo un Máster en Literatura por la Universidad de Iowa, y actualmente es profesor de redacción y escritura del curso semestral del Programa de Escritura del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts.

Haldeman ha sido presidente de la Asociación de escritores de ciencia ficción y fantasía de Estados Unidos entre los años 1992 a 1994. Wikipedia  

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Joe Haldeman: Frases en inglés

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”

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Joe Haldeman

“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?”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Forever War

Fuente: The Forever War

“Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Forever War

Fuente: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 46)
Contexto: 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.

“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Forever War

Fuente: The Forever War

“She hadn’t been such a bad girl before the power went to her head.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Forever War

Fuente: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 28)

“Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 14

“We did it with their government’s foreknowledge and permission, of course—and there were no civilian casualties, equally of course. Once they’re dead they’re rebels.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 27

“CAROL: You don’t care for the music?
JACQUE: Music! It’s just a gimmick to sell lutes and flutes.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Mindbridge

Fuente: Mindbridge (1976), Chapter 18 “Chapter 6: Prelude” (p. 64)

““You’re actually a soldier,” he said to me, “and you go along with this foolishness?”
“I didn’t ask to be a soldier. And I can’t imagine a peace as foolish as this war we’re in.””

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 227

“If you asked him, he would say the only connection between free will and religion in his life was the fact that he hadn’t set foot in a synagogue since he turned eighteen.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Accidental Time Machine

Fuente: The Accidental Time Machine (2007), Chapter 14 (p. 152)

“I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely “cowardice“ had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Forever War

Fuente: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 20 (p. 107)

“I never found anyone else and I don’t want anyone else. I don’t care whether you’re ninety years old or thirty. If I can’t be your lover, I’ll be your nurse.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Forever War

Fuente: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 35 (p. 264)

“We’re inferring from an absence of data,” Jacque said. “That’s lousy science.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Mindbridge

Fuente: Mindbridge (1976), Chapter 28 “Chapter Eight” (p. 104)

““Everybody rich and happy.” She smiled. “Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.””

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Joe Haldeman libro The Accidental Time Machine

Fuente: The Accidental Time Machine (2007), Chapter 15 (p. 181)

“Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 146

“Some are born crazy,” Amelia said. “Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 249

“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.”

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Fuente: For White Hill (1995), p. 257

“One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 25

“It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Camouflage

Fuente: Camouflage (2004), Chapter 24 (p. 133)

“Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.”

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Fuente: For White Hill (1995), p. 225

“Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Mindbridge

Fuente: Mindbridge (1976), Chapter 8 “Geoformy 1” (p. 33)

“Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 205

“It was an ideological war for some—the defenders of democracy versus the rebel strong-arm charismatic leaders. Or the capitalist land-grabbers versus the protectors of the people, take your pick.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 36

“Human nature does change, and the fact that we’ve developed tools to direct that change is quintessentially human. And it must be a nearly universal concomitant to technological growth everywhere in the universe; otherwise there would be no universe. Unless we’re the only technological intelligence in the universe, Julian pointed out; so far there’s no evidence to the contrary. Maybe our own existence is evidence that we’re the first creatures to evolve far enough to hit the reset button. Somebody does have to be first.
But maybe the first is always the last.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 205

“It was making me a little queasy. 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.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Forever War

Fuente: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 20 (p. 108)

“She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?”
“I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.””

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), p. 54

“Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true.”

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Joe Haldeman libro Forever Peace

Fuente: Forever Peace (1997), pp. 44-45

“Rationalism doesn’t require “belief,” only observation. The real, measurable world doesn’t care what you believe.”

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Joe Haldeman libro The Accidental Time Machine

Fuente: The Accidental Time Machine (2007), Chapter 12 (pp. 110-111)

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