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Biography Jack Haldeman studied environmental engineering and biology at the University of Oklahoma, and received a degree from Johns Hopkins University. His scientific career included work inparasitology, field studies of whales in the Canadian Arctic, study of the greenhouse effect, and coordination of a website and a CD-ROM relating to agriculture in Florida. The tapewormHymenapolis haldemanii was named after him. Haldeman published more than 100 short stories, beginning with "Garden of Eden" in the magazine Fantastic (Dec. 1971). He is notable for writing science fiction with sports themes; "Home Team Advantage", first appearing in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1977, has been anthologized a number of times. "High Steel", a 1982 story co-authored withJack Dann, was a Nebula Award nominee; it was later expanded into a novel. Haldeman became a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1971, and went on to chair eight SF conventions. He was married to writer Barbara Delaplace; they collaborated on stories beginning with "That'll be the Day" in the anthology Alternate Tyrants. Haldeman died of cancer at the Hospice of North Central Florida in his home town of Gainesville, Florida, Bibliography Novels

Vector Analysis (G. P. Putnam's Sons 1978; Berkley Books 1980; Ace Books 1984 ISBN 0441-86071-0 The Fall Of Winter (Baen Books 1985, ISBN 0-671-55947-8) There Is No Darkness (1983, with Joe Haldeman; Ace Books 1986, ISBN 0-441-80567-1) Echoes Of Thunder (1991, with Jack Dann) High Steel (Tor Books 1993, with Jack Dann, ISBN 0-312-93163-8)

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