From a press release:
Joe Haldeman has been elected by unanimous vote to the board of The Heinlein Society. He joins the other board members Bill Patterson (President
and Chairman), David M. Silver (Secretary-Treasurer), Charles N. Brown, Yoji Kondo, and Alan Milner.The Heinlein Society, formed in 2000 under the auspices of Virginia Heinlein (1916 – 2003) is a non-profit corporation formed to advance the
fiction and pay forward ideals of Robert A. Heinlein (1907 – 1988), the leading Science Fiction writer of all time.Joe Haldeman has been one of the leading SF writers for nearly 30 years. He is a multi-winner of all the leading SF awards, and has served as President
of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is one of the writers most influenced by Heinlein, and was a personal friend. The Heinlein Society is honored to have him on its Board of Directors.
Haldeman is a Heinlein fan, to be sure, but most of the reviews I’ve read about the Hugo- and Nebula-award winning “The Forever War” describe it as a refutation of the politics in “Starship Troopers.” That’s inaccurate. In TFW, the military is comprised of draftees and in SST, all are volunteers. Heinlein was totally opposed to the draft because it props up the type of government that Haldeman writes about. I don’t think Heinlein would disagree with much on The Forever War.
But that’s my opinion.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Oz // Apr 12, 2006 at 2:19 am
TFW was in fact Haldeman’s personal response to the Vietnam War, in which he served. It was, as you say, not a response to Troopers.
2 Bill Dennis // Apr 12, 2006 at 5:44 am
I bow to your superior wisdom, Oz.
By the way, I finally got around to reading “Forever Free.” A very interesting read that didn’t end the way I thought. I little too deus ex machina for science fiction, in my humble opinion.
3 Oz // Apr 13, 2006 at 12:51 am
Happy to help, though I’m hardly an expert. Is it just me or do Haldeman and Heinlein look similar?
4 nemoforone // Mar 31, 2007 at 10:58 am
What about the possibility of pulling out of Iraq, letting Iran invade and lose resources fighting their own kind,
and then come in and mop up the dregs?
5 AlexanderDrew // Jul 11, 2007 at 4:46 pm
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