He went on to get a BS in astronomy … and an MFA in writing. He sold his first story in 1969, while he was still in the army, post-Vietnam, and his book The Forever War won the Hugo, Nebula, and Ditmar Awards as Best Science Fiction Novel of 1975. A full-time writer for more than twenty-five years now, Haldeman’s most recent novels include: Guardian (2002), Camouflage (2004), and Old Twentieth (2005). He has published short stories and novellas, songs and poetry, articles and editorials—and appears in about twenty languages, including Klingon, which he suspects will generate letters he won’t want to answer. He is on the National Space Society Board of Advisors, and currently works as an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Expedition, with Recipes” is a hidden gem, written during the early years of Haldeman’s illustrious career but never published. “It was a classic failure of communication,” said Haldeman. “A woman who worked for a UNICEF magazine was looking for five or six science fiction writers to each do a story, under 2,000 words, about ‘children and food in the future.’ When you tell a science fiction writer to write a story, he naturally types out a piece of fiction.
