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Dealing In Futures - Joe Haldeman

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Haldeman’s second short story collection has not only science fiction but also horror, poetry, and Haldeman’s only sword-and-sorcery tale.

It starts off strong with two stories set in Haldeman’s Confederacion universe. A team of anthropologists are unpleasantly surprised when their seemingly peaceful alien subjects become murderous. Haldeman constructs a grim, suspenseful story from the first person narratives of people fleeing for their lives across an alien world. Much less serious is “A !Tangled Web” about linguistic and cultural confusions during a trade negotiation with aliens. These aliens have an elaborate and hilarious repertoire of self-deprecating phrases.

Haldeman’s prose often has wit and irony in even his most serious novels but that aspect of his work really livens up “Seven and the Stars” despite its worn plot of a science fiction writer meeting a real alien.

Horror of the traditional and supernatural sort is featured in “Manifest Destiny”, an interesting tale mostly set in Mexico during the Mexican-American War, and “Lindsay and the Red City Cross”. The latter is set in the unpleasant, sinister bazaar of Djemaa El Fna in Marrakesh.

“More Than the Sum of His Parts” is high-tech horror. The narrator’s body is mostly replaced with cybernetic substitutes which help him realize his egomaniac and increasingly lethal fantasies. Haldeman’s alternate title, “Tom Swift and His Electric Penis” should give you some idea where this story goes.

“Blood Sisters” is a Mickey Spillane type story with the Mafia and clones and, of course, lots of sex and gunplay. “Blood Brothers” is Haldeman’s sole entry into the sword-and-sorcery field. Written for Robert Asprin’s Thieve’s World universe, it’s a minor story about a villainous tavern owner.

For Haldeman fans, the most interesting story will probably be “You Can Never Go Back”. It’s Haldeman’s first draft of the story that eventually became the Sergeant Mandella section of his most celebrated work, THE FOREVER WAR. It’s not only longer than the novel version but features a violent, more depressing America and different family details for Mandella and Potter. Haldeman likes this version better though he admits that it would have slowed the novel down too much.

“No Future in It” is an alternate history/time travel story. “The Pilot” is about a cyborg starship that gets really annoyed with tv interviewers. Haldeman finishes the book off with some of his accomplished verse, here three science fiction story poems.

Each entry in the collection features an introduction and afterword by Haldeman explaining the origins and inspirations of the stories.

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Creation Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:46:49 -0400
This is a Multifile Torrent
01 Introduction.mp3 1.37 MBs
02 Seasons.mp3 30.06 MBs
03 Seasons Afterword.mp3 695.86 KBs
04 A !Tangled Web.mp3 12.15 MBs
05 A !Tangled Web Afterword.mp3 947.59 KBs
06 Manifest Destiny.mp3 7.41 MBs
07 Manifest Destiny Afterword.mp3 668.41 KBs
08 Blood Sisters.mp3 8.05 MBs
09 Blood Sisters Afterword.mp3 901.57 KBs
10 Blood Brothers.mp3 9.7 MBs
11 Blood Brothers Afterword.mp3 779.33 KBs
12 You Can Never Go Back.mp3 34.31 MBs
13 You Can Never Go Back Afterword.mp3 834.53 KBs
14 More Than the Sum of His Parts.mp3 9.83 MBs
15 More Than the Sum of His Parts Afterword.mp3 525.75 KBs
16 Seven and the Stars.mp3 7.04 MBs
17 Seven and the Stars Afterword.mp3 516.06 KBs
18 Lindsay and the Red City Blues.mp3 8.66 MBs
19 Lindsay and the Red City Blues Afterword.mp3 322.08 KBs
20 No Future in It.mp3 3.67 MBs
21 No Future in It Afterword.mp3 828.51 KBs
22 The Pilot.mp3 3.03 MBs
23 The Pilot Afterword.mp3 282.41 KBs
24 The Big Bang Theory Explained.mp3 1.5 MBs
25 The Gift.mp3 881.16 KBs
26 Saul’s Death.mp3 1.15 MBs
27 Story Poems Afterword.mp3 2.09 MBs
28 Acknowledgements.mp3 313.41 KBs
Cover1.jpg 44.03 KBs
Cover2.jpg 56.06 KBs
Cover3.jpg 148.76 KBs
Dealing In Futures.txt 3.17 KBs
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Piece Size: 128 KBs
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