Humans travel to the stars and encounter an alien existence. Carmen and her crew - and pilot husband - venture to the alien homeworld and attempt to negotiate peace.But the humans are powerless. The aliens neither care, nor listen. And the sex. Sex is good, but Haldeman spent way too much time o...
SF books written about the near future have a habit of retrospectively turning into alternative histories. This is the case with Haldeman's Worlds which was published in 1950, predicting the Vietnam war in surprisingly accurate detail - apart from the bit where the Communists are defeated, of cou...
Years have passed since the Forever War reached its conclusion, and William Mandella is settled on an icy backwater of a planet, a haven for the minority of remaining humans who aren’t part of the hivemind known as Man. He and his long-lost love are finally married, and together they have raised ...
"Tool of the Trade" belongs to a sub-genre of SF that could be called "Simon Says". What if someone had the power to make other people do what they wanted, if free will came with an asterisk? This is entertaining source material that's mined over and over again in comic books (1 2. For the sto...
Las antologías son libros complicados. Es difícil conseguir que todos los cuentos estén a un mismo nivel de calidad e interés, incluso si se trata de relatos de un mismo autor. Este caso no se trata de la excepción que confirma la regla. Me gusta Haldeman. Me gusta la honestidad con la que habla ...
Joe and Jack Haldeman’s “There Is No Darkness” (1983) has features that have a lot to do with how much of science fiction has been traditionally been marketed. It is a revised and retitled edition of a book titled “Starschool” (1979)—which was a better title than the Shakespearean tag used in the...
