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Joe Haldeman Update
02/07/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
The SF author behind 'Forever War' and 'Forever Peace' chats to the 'Nest about his new works in the pipeline. Joe Haldeman took ten minutes out from his fine scribbling to drop the 'Nest a line about what he's working on at the moment.
Here's what he had to say:
"I'm currently working on a novel called Old Twentieth. It's about people nearly three hundred years in the future who have a kind of tentative immortality - they can only die of physical trauma; their bodies are otherwise self-repairing.
They romanticize the 20th Century - Old Twentieth - as the last century when everyone who was born knew his life would be a rainbow arc from birth to death, and he had to cram all of life into a few decades. They revisit Old Twentieth via virtual reality in a "time machine," which takes them back to the year of their choice for twenty hours of illusion. It's more than entertainment or study. To most of their homogenous culture, it's as all-prevasive as television is to ours.
A group of 800 people take a cluster of five starships on a thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii. They take along their time machine, of course. The story is told through the eyes of the virtuality engineer who's in charge of the machine, as he travels through space and through history, toward disaster.
The paperback version of my most recent novel, Guardian, has just come out. My next one, Camouflage, was serialized in Analog magazine; a slightly less tame version will be released by Ace around 15th August '04, just in time for Worldcon."
For more from Joe's official site, surf on over to http://www.sff.net/people/joe.haldeman/.
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