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Joe Haldeman

    9 giugno 1943

    Questo autore esplora le frontiere dell'esperienza umana in modi innovativi. Le sue opere spesso approfondiscono complesse questioni di identità, realtà e il nostro posto nel cosmo. Con uno stile narrativo magistrale e una profonda intuizione della psiche umana, offre ai lettori una lettura stimolante e indimenticabile. La sua opera rappresenta un contributo significativo al genere della fantascienza.

    Joe Haldeman
    War Stories
    Star Trek: Voyages of Imagination
    Guerra eterna
    Star Trek 6. Mondo Senza Fine
    Guerra Eterna. Ultimo Atto
    Universi lontani. Racconti inediti dei più grandi maestri della fantascienza
    • Undici maestri della fantascienza guidati da Robert Silverberg, , ci conducono in altrettanti mondi leggendari; ritornano nei luoghi e nei temi dei loro cicli più famosi aggiungendo delle perle negli universi immaginari più famosi di sempre: Ursula LeGuin nell'Ecumenia (l'Universo de "La Mano Sinistra delle Tenebre"), Haldeman e La Guerra Eterna, O.S.Card e Ender, David Brin torna nei mondi di Uplift, Silverberg e Roma Eterna (un mondo alternativo dove l'Impero Romano non è caduto sotto le scorrerie barbariche), Dan Simmons ed Hyperion, Namcy Kress ed i Non Dormienti "Mendicanti" , F. Pohl e gli Heechee, Il Centro Gallattico di Benford, La Nave che Cantava della McCaffrey (onore alla Grande Signora che ci ha lasciati da poco), La Via di Greg Bear. Un compendio essenziale ai grandi cicli della Fantascienza.

      Universi lontani. Racconti inediti dei più grandi maestri della fantascienza
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    • Star Trek: Voyages of Imagination

      The Star Trek Fiction Companion

      • 800pagine
      • 28 ore di lettura

      For over four decades, the demand for Star Trek stories has led to five television series, over seven hundred episodes, ten feature films, and an animated series. From the early short-story adaptations by James Blish in the 1960s to the original novels of the 1970s and beyond, fiction has significantly expanded the Star Trek universe. This exploration delves into why these books serve as a powerful creative outlet for some and a fresh way to engage with the Star Trek mythos for others. The work reflects on the first forty years of professionally published Star Trek fiction, showcasing the personalities and creative sensibilities of its contributors. It provides an insightful look into the creative processes, challenges, innovations, and progress within this literary landscape. Author Jeff Ayers has engaged with nearly six hundred books and interviewed over three hundred authors and editors to create a comprehensive guide to this unique publishing phenomenon. Fully illustrated with book covers, the work includes an index by title and author, as well as a detailed timeline, making it an essential resource for every fan.

      Star Trek: Voyages of Imagination
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    • War Stories

      • 450pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Hugo and Nebula Award winner Joe Haldeman is one of the most compelling writers to emerge from the Vietnam War.War Stories collects together two novels, several short stories, and two long poems that deal explicitly with Haldeman’s Vietnam and post-Vietnam experiences. The novel War Year was one of the first books written by Haldeman upon his return from Vietnam, and the novel 1968 (which chronicles time in country, as well as a soldiers return “home”) was not published until 1994. These two novels form compelling bookends to a career’s worth of writing that has been passionately engaged with the questions raised by the Vietnam War.War Stories includes the Forever War novella, “A Separate War,” as well as three new author introductions which give some historical, personal, and bibliographic background to the fiction herein.The novels and stories in this book have never been as potent, nor as terribly relevant as they are today.

      War Stories
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    • Peace and War

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Together in one volume for the first time ever; his classic novel of epic future conflict, The Forever War, its sequel Forever Free, and the companion novel, Forever Peace.WARWilliam Mandella is a reluctant hero, drafted to fight in a distant interstellar war against unknowable and unconquerable aliens. But his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. Relativity means that everey time he returns home after a few months' tour of duty, centuries have passed on Earth, making him and his fellows ever more isolated from the world for whose future they are fighting.FREEWhen Mandella returns for the last time he finds humanity has evolved into a group mind called Man. Living a dull life in an autocratic and intrusive society, missing the certainties of combat and feeling increasingly alienated, the veterans plan an escape. But when their ship starts to fail, their journey becomes a search for the unknown.PEACE2043. The Ngumi War rages, fought by 'soldierboys', indestructible machines operated remotely by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of those soldiers, and for him war is truly hell. But he and his companion, Dr Amelia Harding, have discovered something that could literally take the universe back to square one. For Julian, the discovery isn't so much terrifying as tempting...

      Peace and War
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    • The Forever War

      • 254pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero, drafted into an elite military unit to fight in a distant interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. Mandella will perform his duties and, as he survives, rise through the ranks, but his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the effects of relativity, every time he comes home after a few months¿ tour of duty, centuries have gone by on Earth, making him and his fellows ever more isolated from the world for whose future they are fighting.

      The Forever War
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    • Cutting Edge

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      This anthology contains: Blue Rose by Peter Straub The Monster by Joe Haldeman Lacunae by Karl Edward Wagner Pale Trembling Youth by W.H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson Muzak for Torso Murders by Marc Laidlaw Goodbye, Dark Love by Roberta Lannes Out There by Charles L. Grant Little Cruelties by Steve Rasnic Tem The Man with the Hoe by George Clayton Johnson They're Coming for You by Les Daniels Vampire by Richard Christian Matheson Lapses by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The Final Stone by William F. Nolan Irrelativity by Nicholas Royle The Hands by Ramsey Campbell The Bell by Ray Russell Lost Souls by Clive Barker Reaper by Robert Bloch The Transfer by Edward Bryant Pain by Whitley Strieber

      Cutting Edge
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    • An audacious and suspenseful vision of the future by Joe Handeman, on the grand scale of MINDBRIDGE & THE FOREVER WAR. In a universe of strange, threatening & mutated creatures, Otto McGavin acts as undercover agent for the Confederacion. A mild, unassuming man, two years of intensive hypnotic training have turned him into a Prime Operator with TB II. His technology enables him to take on the appearance & personality of any enemy. And to protect the legal rights of humans and non-humans he is prepared to lie, cheat, steal and kill his way across the galaxy.

      All My Sins Remembered
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