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On the show this week is science fiction legend, Joe Haldeman . If you read sci-fi, you've probably read, or at least heard of The Forever War . Perhaps the first anti-war science fiction book written by a veteran. Joe is one of the few authors to have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and he is also a lifetime member and past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) . We talk about his friendship with Robert A. Heinlein , politics in sci-fi, and the evolution of the genre. Please let us know if there is a book you want us to review or an author you want us to have on the podcast! You can always reach us on our social media links below or email us at talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com . You can also find more Tales From The Bridge on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and our website to see what is happening on The Bridge. Check out our many links: Twitter: @BridgeTales Instagram: @talesfromthebridge Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/talesfromthebridge/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17354590/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Website: https://talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/ Email: talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tales-from-the-bridge-all-things-sci-fi/id1570902818 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MQuEYGQ3HD2xTewRag8KG LOTL: Queer Conversation We all crave Queer Conversations. Follow the link to listen. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Link tree https://linktr.ee/talesfromthebridge

This week we were so excited to interview Joe Haldeman and his wife Gay! The Forever War is absolutely one of the best sci fi books of all time, and we were excited to discuss the origins, real-life inspiration, and message of the book, as well as sci-fi and writing more broadly. In addition to writing more than 30 novels, Joe was also a professor at MIT (as was Gay) where he taught science fiction writing for decades. This week, instead of us recommending similar books, we asked Joe and Gay to recommend their favorite sci-fi books. Among Joe's books, they recommended Camouflage, the World's Trilogy, and The Accidental Time Machine. For books by other writers, they recommended anything by Vonnegut, The Murderbot series by Martha Wells, Ted Chiang, N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, and Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (as well as some love for John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway if you want to read some non science fiction). YouTube link if you prefer to watch the episode. NO SPOILERS SUMMARY OF THE FOREVER WAR: William Mandella was a physics student when he was conscripted into the UNEF. Human colony ships had been disappearing, apparently at the hands of a newly discovered alien species called the Taurans, and humanity is conscripting the best and brightest to go out and fight the aliens in deep space. Mandella and the rest of the recruits undergo dangerous and brutal training to learn how fight for control of the collapsars that greatly speed interstellar travel. During training and through the difficult fighting that follows, Mandella falls in love with another member of his unit, a woman named Marygay Potter. Mandella and Marygay do everything they can to survive the war, but even if they survive, they still can’t return to the world they left behind. Even with the collapsars to speed their interstellar journeys, travelling through the gaps between the stars still requires accelerating to near lightspeed, and the resulting time dilation means every trip takes them farther and farther into the future, away from their families and the society they knew.

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Today it's ten minutes with SF Grandmaster and Hall of Fame inductee Joe Haldeman , who chatted with Gary from his Florida home, discussing what it’s like to be an official Grand Master, the value of reading SF print magazines, the different kinds of trilogies, and the appeal of graphic novels. Books mentioned include: The Worlds trilogy , Joe Haldeman The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

Science Fiction great Joe Haldeman ("The Forever War", "Marsbound", "The Hemingway Hoax", "Worlds") joins the astroquarks for a wide-ranging discussion from microwave-plasma-grapes to cosmic rays, science in science fiction, and the latest space news including SpaceShipTwo returning to space and Hayabusa-2 touching an asteroid.

This week, Francis did some damn journalism. He interviewed Joe Haldeman, author of the 1974 sci-fi masterpiece 'The Forever War,' about his Army service and how it informed his writing (and about blowing things up with C4). We really hope you enjoy this. Additionally, we've got an update on some of 2019's newest war crimes stories, in which gamer and vaper Duncan Hunter weighs in on whether it should be okay to murder people or not. This week's bonus continues our 'Is It Fascist?' review series, with a special war film that you likely know and hate: Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 Iraq War thriller 'The Hurt Locker.' Nate's wife Cynthia joins us to provide some film-critic civilian perspective. Get it here for $3 a month on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-it-fascist-24785664 We have a YouTube channel now -- subscribe here and get sweet videos from us in which we yell in our cars like true veterans: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwlHZpNTz-h6aTeQiJrEDKw Francis has a sweet new t-shirt design involving a refreshing glass of Soviet assault rifle. Get it here: https://teespring.com/kalashnikov-classic#pid=373&cid=100039&sid=front You can follow the show on Twitter here: @ HellOfAWay Follow Nate here: @ inthesedeserts Follow Francis here: @ ArmyStrang

Joe Haldeman is a prolific sci-fi writer who has won numerous awards for his work. His most significant novel is The Forever War which also had two follow on novels. His trilogy has recently been… Read More

Eric and Nic talk about upcoming book releases, literary news and interview award winning author, Joe Haldeman. They discuss his classic book The Forever War and get in to his time writing Star Trek. Interview starts at 38:30! http://www.joehaldeman.com/