Joe W. Haldeman, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was raised in and around Washington, D.C., where his father was an administrator for military health programs. After high school, he obtained an M.A. in English and a B.S. in astronomy at Iowa State,...

In his award-winning science fiction novel The Forever War, Joe Haldeman combines his experiences as a soldier during the Vietnam War, in which he was severely wounded, with a realistic, scientifically-accurate presentation. The novel tells of a war...

Poul Anderson liked to keep his work simple. That way, he said, he could devote more time to pleasing his readers. In his stories, Anderson created technologically advanced worlds. Yet the world Anderson worked in was technologically modest for its time. He was simply too...