Synopses & Reviews
Joe Haldemans adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim” (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy. Now, the multiple Hugo and Nebula awardwinning author pits a lone war veteran against a mysterious enemy who is watching his every moveand threatens him with more than death unless he kills for them. Wounded in combat and honorably discharged nine years ago, Jack Daley still suffers nightmares from when he served his country as a sniper, racking up sixteen confirmed kills. Now a struggling author, Jack accepts an offer to write a near-future novel about a serial killer, based on a Hollywood script outline. Its an opportunity to build his writing career, and a future with his girlfriend, Kit Majors.
But Jacks other talent is also in demand. A package arrives on his doorstep containing a sniper rifle, complete with silencer and ammunitionand the first installment of a $100,000 payment to kill a bad man.” The twisted offer is genuine. The people behind it are dangerous. They prove that they have Jack under surveillance. He cant run. He cant hide. And if he doesnt take the job, Kit will be in the crosshairs instead.
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If there was a Fort Knox for the science fiction writers who really matter, wed have to lock Haldeman up there.
Stephen King
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"Intriguing...a thought-provoking meditation on time, history, and the potential for human evolution."
-BOOKPAGE
"Recalling Robert A. Heinlein's Red Planet and Podkayne of Mars, Haldeman updates the Martian setting."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Classic sci-fi to be savored."
-MONSTERS AND CRITICS
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“If there was a Fort Knox for the science fiction writers who really matter, we’d have to lock Haldeman up there.”—Stephen King
“Haldeman trips through history wearing alien goggles, but his message is all about human nature.”—Entertainment Weekly
Praise for Earthbound:
“This is one of the best Haldeman novels, all told in crisp prose and ending not without hope.”—City Book Review
“An enjoyable story filled with action and surprise.”—Night Owl Reviews
“Heaven as my witness, I wish it were a longer book, so that I could have stayed in its world just a bit more…Wow.”—Blogcritics.org
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Praise for I, Robot: To Protect
“A thrilling climax provides plenty of action and excitement, forcing all to examine their values and to take action in an untenable situation.”—SF Revu
“An excellent homage to a milestone work in science fiction history.”—Night Owl Reviews
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Praise for Joe Haldeman, Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Awards
“If there was a Fort Knox for the science fiction writers who really matter, wed have to lock Haldeman up there.”—Stephen King
“Haldeman has long been one of our most aware, comprehensive, and necessary writers. He speaks from a place deep within the collective psyche and, more importantly, his own. His mastery is informed with a survivors hard-won wisdom.”—Peter Straub
“[Haldemans] prose is as clear and engaging as his ideas.”—The New York Times Book Review
“One of science fictions most reliable practitioners.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Haldeman remains a nimble, necessary figure in sci-fis pantheon.”—Entertainment Weekly
“[Haldemans] prose is laconic, compact, seemingly offhand but quite precise…Like the grammar of cinema, it is a mode that looks natural and even easy but requires exacting skill.”
—The Washington Post
“Joe Haldeman has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time…If you havent discovered the appeal of Haldemans unique brand of science fiction, its time you did.”—Rocky Mountain News
Synopsis
A novel of the red planet from the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of The Accidental Time Machine and Old Twentieth.Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetimetheyre going to Mars.
Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angelan angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars:
We were here first.
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Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars, in this novel from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of "The Accidental Time Machine" and "Old Twentieth."
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"One of science fiction's most reliable practitioners" (San Francisco Chronicle) continues his saga of space exploration.
The mysterious alien Others have prohibited humans from space travel-destroying Earth's fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. Now Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter Martians and then the mysterious Others, and her colleagues struggle to find a way, using nineteenthcentury technology, to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them.
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Young Carmen Dula and her family are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime-they're going to Mars. But Carmen's rebellious streak leads her to venture out into the bleak Mars landscape alone, where she is saved by an angel. An angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad-and a message for the humans on Mars:
We were here first...Synopsis
The Others disposed of Earth’s spaceship fleet as easily as swatting a fly. They blew up the Moon, letting the resulting cloud of rocks and gravel go into orbit. Then, for good measure, they turned off all the power, leaving Earth with nine billion hungry people competing for dwindling resources.
Now Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter Martians and then the mysterious alien Others, and her colleagues struggle to find a way—using nineteenth-century technology—to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them.
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2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 2036: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But even as humanity contends with the consequences of its most brilliant creation, there are those who have their own designs for the robots: enslavement…or annihilation.
Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes her very close to home.
When she was young, Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father. She now believes the accident was an attempted murder by government powers who wanted her parents dead. Susan has always known that there was a faction of the U.S. government that wanted to hijack her father’s work for military use. Now, it seems that faction is back.
As she struggles to overcome her pain and confusion as well as deal with her studies, Susan finds herself hunted by violent anti-tech vigilantes who would revert mankind to the dark ages—and at the same time watched very closely by extremists who want high-tech genocide. Somehow she must find a way to stop them both.
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2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 2036: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But even as humanity contends with the consequences of its most brilliant creation, there are those who have their own designs for the robots: enslavement…or annihilation.
Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes her very close to home.
When she was young, Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father. She now believes the accident was an attempted murder by government powers who wanted her parents dead. Susan has always known that there was a faction of the U.S. government that wanted to hijack her father’s work for military use. Now, it seems that faction is back.
As she struggles to overcome her pain and confusion as well as deal with her studies, Susan finds herself hunted by violent anti-tech vigilantes who would revert mankind to the dark ages—and at the same time watched very closely by extremists who want high-tech genocide. Somehow she must find a way to stop them both.
About the Author
Joe Haldeman is a Vietnam veteran whose classic novels The Forever War and Forever Peace both have the rare honor of having won the Hugo and Nebula awards. He has served twice as president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and is currently an adjunct professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His other novels include The Accidental Time Machine and the Marsbound Trilogy: Marsbound, Starbound, and Earthbound.