Joe Haldeman at Forbidden Planet!

JOE HALDEMAN will be signing The SF Gateway Omnibus Edition of MARSBOUND, STARBOUND and EARTHBOUND at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Friday 25th October from 6 – 7pm.

From The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes the perfect introduction to Joe Haldeman, one of SF's most decorated authors. Haldeman is best known for the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Forever War, a novel that draws on his experience as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was wounded and earned a Purple Heart. This omnibus collects the Carmen Dula sequence comprising Marsbound, Starbound and Earthbound, which chart humanity's response to the challenge of alien contact.

Joe William Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City. He holds degrees in physics and astronomy, and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and earned a Purple Heart. This experience informed his best-known work, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Forever War. He is one of SF's most decorated authors, boasting five Hugos, five Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial and James Tiptree, Jr Awards and the SFWA Grand Master Award amongst many others. In addition to continuing to produce top quality SF, Joe Haldeman teaches writing at MIT.