Joe Haldeman Reading Order

56 books (1972–2022)

Start with Orbit 11, the first of 56 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Orbit 11 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year's Best Science Fiction 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cosmic Laughter; Science Fiction for the Fun of It 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Study War No More 1977Buy 🇺🇸
6	Rod Serling's Other Worlds 1978Buy 🇺🇸
7	Shadows of Sanctuary 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	Analog 3 1982Buy 🇺🇸
9	Nebula Awards 17 1983Buy 🇺🇸
10	Alien Stars 1985Buy 🇺🇸
11	Body Armor 1986Buy 🇺🇸
12	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1986 1986Buy 🇺🇸
13	Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow 1987Buy 🇺🇸
14	Supertanks 1987Buy 🇺🇸
15	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
16	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸
17	Spacefighters 1988Buy 🇺🇸
18	A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling 1989Buy 🇺🇸
19	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
20	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸
21	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
22	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
23	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
24	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸
25	South From Midnight 1994Buy 🇺🇸
26	The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3 1994Buy 🇺🇸
27	Paragons 1996Buy 🇺🇸
28	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
29	Far Horizons 1999Buy 🇺🇸
30	Nebula Awards 34 (2000) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Furthest Horizon 2000Buy 🇺🇸
32	Vanishing Acts 2000Buy 🇺🇸
33	I Have This Nifty Idea 2001Buy 🇺🇸
34	Space Soldiers 2001Buy 🇺🇸
35	Supermen 2002Buy 🇺🇸
36	Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian 2003Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others 2003Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
39	Future Washington 2005Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸
41	Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006Buy 🇺🇸
42	Escape from Earth 2006Buy 🇺🇸
43	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 2006Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
45	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
46	Future Weapons of War 2007Buy 🇺🇸
47	Nebula Awards 41 (2007) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
48	Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Best of the Best, Vol 2 2007Buy 🇺🇸
50	Warriors 1 2010Buy 🇺🇸
51	Crucified Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸
52	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Mammoth Book of SF Wars 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	You're Not Alone 2014Buy 🇺🇸
55	Visions of the Future 2015Buy 🇺🇸
56	Bullet Points 2 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1975–1975)

Start with Attar's Revenge and read in order.

#	Title
1	Attar's Revenge 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	War of Nerves 1975Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2011)

Start with Marsbound and read in order.

#	Title
1	Marsbound 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Starbound 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Earthbound 2011Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1972–2005)

Start with War Year and read in order.

#	Title
1	War Year 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	War Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1992–2003)

Start with Graves and read in order.

#	Title
1	Graves 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Four Short Novels 2003Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1977–2013)

Start with All My Sins Remembered, the first of 9 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	All My Sins Remembered 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Infinite Dreams 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	There Is No Darkness(With: Jack C. Haldeman II) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dealing in Futures 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	None So Blind 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	Saul's Death and Other Poems 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Separate War and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best of Joe Haldeman 2013Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1976–2014)

Start with Mindbridge, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Mindbridge 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tool of the Trade 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Long Habit of Living / Buying Time 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Hemingway Hoax 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	1968 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Coming 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Guardian 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Camouflage 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Old Twentieth 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Accidental Time Machine 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Work Done for Hire 2014Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1970–1981)

Start with Spock Must Die!(By: James Blish), the first of 17 books in the Star Trek Adventures series.

#	Title
1	Spock Must Die!(By: James Blish) 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spock, Messiah!(By: Theodore R. Cogswell) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Star Trek: The New Voyages(By: Eleanor Arnason,Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Planet of Judgment 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Star Trek 12(By: J.A. Lawrence) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
6	Star Trek: The New Voyages 2(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Price of the Phoenix(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mudd's Angels(By: J.A. Lawrence) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Starless World(By: Gordon Eklund) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	Vulcan!(By: Kathleen Sky) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
11	Devil World(By: Gordon Eklund) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Fate of the Phoenix(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
13	Trek to Madworld(By: Stephen Goldin) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
14	World Without End 1979Buy 🇺🇸
15	Perry's Planet(By: Jack C. Haldeman II) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Galactic Whirlpool(By: David Gerrold) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
17	Death's Angel(By: Kathleen Sky) 1981Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1974–1999)

Start with The Forever War and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Forever War 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Forever Peace 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Forever Free 1999Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2017–2017)

Start with The Forever War #1, the first of 6 books in the The Forever War (2017) series.

3 books (2018–2018)

Start with The Forever War: Forever Free #1 and read in order.

2 books (2002–2002)

Start with The Forever War 2: Lieutenant Mandella and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Forever War 2: Lieutenant Mandella 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Forever War, Vol. 1: Private Mandella 2002Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2004–2008)

Start with The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1(By: Matt Ruff), the first of 4 books in the The James Tiptree Award Anthology series.

#	Title
1	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1(By: Matt Ruff) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3(By: Jeffrey D. Smith) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4(By: Jeffrey D. Smith) 2008Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1979–2013)

Start with Thieves' World(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin), the first of 19 books in the Thieves' World series.

#	Title
1	Thieves' World(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shadows of Sanctuary(With: Philip Jose Farmer,John Brunner,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	Storm Season(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Face of Chaos(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Wings of Omen(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Dead of Winter(By: Robert Lynn Asprin) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	Blood Ties(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
9	Soul of the City(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
10	Aftermath(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
11	Shadowspawn(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
12	Uneasy Alliances(By: Robert Lynn Asprin) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
13	Stealers' Sky(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Shadow of Sorcery(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
15	Sanctuary(By: Lynn Abbey) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	Turning Points(By: Dennis L. McKiernan,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Raymond E. Feist,Diana Paxson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
17	Enemies of Fortune(By: C.J. Cherryh,Jody Lynn Nye,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Robin Wayne Bailey,Andrew J. Offutt,Jeff Grubb,Selina Rosen,Diana Paxson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
18	Thieves' World: Player's Manual(By: James Ryman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Secret of the Blue Star(By: Marion Zimmer Bradley) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1981–1992)

Start with Worlds and read in order.

#	Title
1	Worlds 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Worlds Apart 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	Worlds Enough and Time 1992Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸