Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds (31 page)

Joe and Gay Haldeman with their friend, prominent science fiction personality Rusty Hevelin (at right) in Alaska, 1993.

The author with his Questar telescope in 2004.

Janis Ian, Joe Haldeman, and Anne McCaffrey at the 2005 Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards weekend.

Honoring tradition, Haldeman wears the infamous tiara after winning the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for his novel
Camouflage
.

Celebrated science fiction author Harry Harrison (at left) and Haldeman dressed as pirates during the 2005 World Fantasy Convention in England.

Joe and Gay Haldeman enjoying the Valley of the Kings in Egypt during a trip to see a total solar eclipse in 2006.

The author outside St. Augustine, Florida, on the first day of a cross-country bicycle trip with his wife in February 2013.

The author's Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Joe and Gay Haldeman, 2013.

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This collection includes works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

“Passages” appeared in the March 1990
Analog.
Copyright © 1990 by Joe Haldeman.

“A !Tangled Web” appeared in the 14 December 1981
Analog.
Copyright © 1981 by Joe Haldeman.

“Seasons” appeared in
Alien Stars
, edited by Betsy Mitchell (Baen, 1984). Copyright © 1984 by Joe Haldeman.

“The Mazel Tov Revolution” appeared in the September 1975
Analog.
Copyright © 1975 by the Condé Nast Corporation.

“Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds” first appeared in
The Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Lloyd Eaton Conference in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Copyright © 1992 by Joe Haldeman.

“Not Being There” is copyright © 1993 by Joe Haldeman.

“Confessions of a Space Junkie” is copyright © 1993 by Joe Haldeman.

“War Stories” is copyright © 1993 by Joe Haldeman.

“Photographs and Memories” is copyright © 1993 by Joe Haldeman.

“Saul's Death” first appeared in the February 1983
Omni.
Copyright ©1983 by Joe Haldeman.

“Homecoming” first appeared in
Fires of the Past
, edited by Anne Devereaux Jordan (St. Martin's, 1991). Copyright © 1991 by Joe Haldeman.

“Time Lapse” first appeared in
Blood Is Not Enough
, edited by Ellen Datlow (Morrow, 1989). Copyright © 1989 by Joe Haldeman.

“DX” first appeared in
In the Field of Fire
, edited by Jack and Jeanne Van Buren Dann (Tor, 1987). Copyright © 1987 by Joe Haldeman.

Copyright © 1993 by Joe Haldeman

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