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* In the Joe Haldeman novel The Forever War much of the action between William Mandella's first and second deployments occurs in an arcology.
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On October 2008, Scott confirmed that after a 25-year wait for the rights to become available, he was to make an adaptation of the book The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
McConnell's experiments were later discredited, but ideas drawn from them were used in science fiction by several authors, including Heinlein, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman and Dean Koontz.
Works deriving themes and elements from Future Shock include the science fiction novels The Forever War ( 1974 ) by Joe Haldeman, The Shockwave Rider ( 1975 ) by John Brunner, the RPG Transhuman Space ( 2002 ) by Steve Jackson Games, and the indie RPG Shock: Social Science Fiction ( 2006 ) by designer Joshua A. C. Newman.
The Vietnam War resulted in veterans with combat experience turning to write science fiction, including David Drake and Joe Haldeman.
The Forever War ( 1974 ) is a science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story of soldiers fighting an interstellar war between humanity and the enigmatic Tauran species.
An ebook version was released in July 2011 by Ridan Publishing and also contained the foreword by John Scalzi and introductions by Joe Haldeman and Robin Sullivan ( President of Ridan Publishing ).
Joe and novel
* W. P. Kinsella, novelist well known for his 1982 novel Shoeless Joe which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams
The novel also includes scenes in Lebanon and on an atoll for a United States atomic weapon test, as well as information about Joe One, although these elements were not in the film version.
The county is referred to in Joe David Brown's 1971 novel Addie Pray, which inspired the movie Paper Moon.
Several people were accused of the murder including his own wife after she admitted an affair with one of the accused, but after intense trails and no hard evidence the case was dropped, and no one ever admitted as the murderer. In later years the murder was almost forgotten asides memory from a handful of senior citizens, until Joe Towne one of the community leaders, grew interested in the subject and studied it and interviewed those who remembered the tragic situation and wrote it into a true story novel " Tongues on Fire ".
Some editions include as a foreword a letter written by Sayers " To my friend Joe Dignam, the kindliest of landlords ," from which it becomes evident that she herself was in the habit of having holidays in Galloway-a habit attributed to Wimsey in the book-and that on one of them she promised her landlord to write a detective novel set in this area, of which the book was a fulfilment.
He played a helicopter pilot named Frank Bama, a character out of his novel, " Where is Joe Merchant ".
Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
* Save Me, Joe Louis ( novel ) ( Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993 ) ( Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series, 1994 )
Although he wrote twelve works of fiction, Braine is chiefly remembered today for his first novel, Room at the Top ( 1957 ), which was also turned into a successful film in 1959, with Laurence Harvey starring as Joe Lampton.
Joe Haldeman's novel Mindbridge also uses the collage technique, as does his short story, " To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal.
* The Forever War: Four-hour miniseries, scripted by John Fasano and based on Joe Haldeman's novel of that name.
William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC ( born May 25, 1935 ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who is well known for his novel Shoeless Joe ( 1982 ), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989.
Shoeless Joe ( 1982 ), his first novel, blends fantasy and magical realism to tell the story of a poor Iowa farmer who, yielding to voices in his head, builds a baseball field in his corn field that attracts the spirits of the 1919 Chicago White Sox.
The POUM is briefly mentioned in Joe Haldeman's science fiction novel The Forever War as a militia where "( y ) ou obeyed an order only after it had been explained in detail ; you could refuse if it didn't make sense.
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