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Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American ScienceFiction writer who burst onto the scene with his controversial 1970s novel, ''Literature/TheForeverWar'', which was very loosely based on his experiences in the still-ongoing Vietnam War. The novel won both the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo|Award}} and UsefulNotes/{{Nebula Award}}s. His later novel, ''Literature/ForeverPeace'', which was unrelated (though a SpiritualSuccessor), also won both those awards. He has written over twenty-five novels, and many short stories. In 2010, he was declared a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American ScienceFiction writer who burst onto the scene with his controversial 1970s novel, ''Literature/TheForeverWar'', which was very loosely based on his experiences in the still-ongoing Vietnam War. The novel won both the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo|Award}} MediaNotes/{{Hugo|Award}} and UsefulNotes/{{Nebula MediaNotes/{{Nebula Award}}s. His later novel, ''Literature/ForeverPeace'', which was unrelated (though a SpiritualSuccessor), also won both those awards. He has written over twenty-five novels, and many short stories. In 2010, he was declared a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward [[MediaNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward Grand Master]] by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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* ''The Hemingway Hoax'' (winner of the UsefulNotes/HugoAward)
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* HumanOutsideAlienInside: His Rhysling-Award-winning poem "Saul's Death: two sestinas"[[note]]The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina sestina]] is a very specific and rather difficult form of poetry.[[/note]] uses this. Narrated by an unnamed human fighter, it tells the story of the fighter's life as a mercenary and his friendship with another mercenary, named Saul. It concludes with the twin revelations that Saul looks human but has vitals "like nothing in this world," and [[spoiler:the narrator is a time traveler from the future.]]
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* PrimalPolymorphs: In ''Camouflage'', the shapeshifting alien known as the Changeling has spent the last few million years taking the form of various animals and thinking on a very simple level - up until they encounter a surfer one day and decide to be human for a change. As such, the Changeling's first attempts at blending in are ''very'' crude, leading to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality numerous criminal misunderstandings]] before they finally learn the rules. Subverted in the case of the Chameleon, the ''other'' shapeshifting alien of the story, who is an expert in {{Humanshifting}} and has learned [[VillainsBlendInBetter to blend in much more effectively than his semi-heroic counterpart]].
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* ''ComicBook/DallasBarr''''ComicBook/DallasBarr'' (Adapted from ''Buying Time'', also published as ''The Long Habit Of Living''.)
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Fixing Real Politik to Realpolitik
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* BeAllMySinsRemembered: In the novel ''All My Sins Remembered'', the hero is a spy/operative for the galactic government. The novel is a series of debriefings where he tells what he had to do in the line of duty, and how those memories are gnawing on his conscience. The true horror of it is that in each case, his actions ''should'' have served to make the universe a better place, but his sacrifices were screwed over in the name of RealPolitik, and his "debriefings" are in fact part of memory-erasure "therapy" that are reducing him to a drooling vegetable.
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* BeAllMySinsRemembered: In the novel ''All My Sins Remembered'', the hero is a spy/operative for the galactic government. The novel is a series of debriefings where he tells what he had to do in the line of duty, and how those memories are gnawing on his conscience. The true horror of it is that in each case, his actions ''should'' have served to make the universe a better place, but his sacrifices were screwed over in the name of RealPolitik, {{Realpolitik}}, and his "debriefings" are in fact part of memory-erasure "therapy" that are reducing him to a drooling vegetable.
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* ShapeshifterLongevity: The Changeling and the Chameleon of ''Camouflage'' are both shapeshifters, and while they possess varying levels of ability, the two of them are effectively immortal thanks to their powers. For good measure, the two of them have been on Earth for millions of years, with the latter [[UndyingWarrior killing its way across numerous battlefields]] and the former spending eons as various sea creatures before finally noticing the presence of human beings and deciding to impersonate one of them. In the intro, it's actually explained that their species evolved shapeshifting as an AdaptiveAbility, and once it developed enough to be consciously controlled, it soon adapted to ''aging'' as well.
