A media circus inevitably ensues, as the citizens of Earth attempt to prepare for a wholly unprecedented event.įrom this point forward, Haldeman focuses not on the alien spaceship but on the social, political, and environmental conditions of a rapidly deteriorating planet. Subsequent analysis reveals that the source of the message is heading directly toward Earth and is scheduled to arrive on the first day of January 2055. The easily decrypted message contains two unambiguous words: We're coming. A sophisticated sensing device called a gamma ray burst detector has picked up a message from somewhere beyond the solar system. Aurora (Rory) Bell, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Florida, has just made the discovery of the century.
He and his wife, Gay, live in Florida, where he also paints, plays the guitar, rides his bicycle, and studies the skies with his telescope.Joe Haldeman's novel The Comingis a tightly constructed near future thriller which begins by recapitulating a classic science fictional motif: the moment of first contact with an alien intelligence. Haldeman recently retired after many years as an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His works include The Forever War, Forever Peace, Camouflage, 1968, the Worlds saga, and the Marsbound series. Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award, the Rhysling Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. He has won the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his novels, novellas, poems, and short stories, as well as the John W. Haldeman sold his first story in 1969 and has since written over two dozen novels and five collections of short stories and poetry. He was awarded several medals, including a Purple Heart. Drafted in 1967, he fought in the Central Highlands of Vietnam as a combat engineer with the Fourth Division. Joe Haldeman began his writing career while he was still in the army.
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