Returning from a brief hiatus, this week the Coode Street team avoided the Gershwin Room, instead heading down to Florida for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, where Gary persuaded Joe and Gay Haldeman to join us on the podcast to discuss The Forever War, the writing life and the soon to be published retrospective short story collection, The Best of Joe Haldeman. As always, we’d like to thank Joe and Gay, and hope you enjoy the podcast.
My favorite Haldeman story is Tricentennial. I was very moved by the last paragraph, the strange pair of binary stars and other fun stuff. Even the graffito on the Space Elevator.
I learned something new this time: Attar the Merman. It’s like finding out that Hemingway ghosted a couple issues of Doc Savage.