{"product_id":"9781497692435","title":"Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eThe Forever War\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of writings ranging from our past in Southeast Asia to our future among the stars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author Joe Haldeman burst onto the literary scene with the hugely popular novel \u003ci\u003eThe Forever War\u003c\/i\u003e, but his career also took off on the strength of his short fiction. This brilliant collection brings together examples of his science fiction as well as his writing on Vietnam—and reveals the inexorable connections between the two.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The works included in \u003ci\u003eVietnam and Other Alien Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eare united by its title essay, in which Haldeman explains how his past informs his envisioned futures. One of these futures is a grouping of four stories from the Confederación universe, which includes his novels \u003ci\u003eAll My Sins Remembered \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e. An anthropological expedition goes awry as a research team’s subjects become murderous, and trade negotiations fall apart, comically lost in translation. The collection closes with one of Haldeman’s most affective works about Vietnam—the moving narrative poem “DX.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVietnam and Other Alien Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eproves to be an anthology as versatile and multifaceted as the author who wrote it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132116713712,"sku":"9781497692435","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781497692435_p0.jpg?v=1769896257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781497692435","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}