Education
Jack Haldeman studied environmental engineering and biology at the University of Oklahoma, and received a degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Jack Haldeman studied environmental engineering and biology at the University of Oklahoma, and received a degree from Johns Hopkins University.
He was the older brother of San Francisco writer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology writing professor Joe Haldeman. His scientific career included work in parasitology, field studies of whales in the Canadian Arctic, study of the greenhouse effect, and coordination of a website and a Civil Defense-ROM relating to agriculture in Florida. The tapeworm Hymenolepis haldemani was named after him.
Haldeman published at least 75 short stories, beginning with "Garden of Eden" in the magazine Fantastic (December 1971).
He is notable for writing science fiction with sports themes. "Home Team Advantage", first appearing in Isaac Asimov"s Science Fiction Magazine in 1977, has been anthologized a number of times.
Haldeman died of cancer in 2002, at the Hospice of North Central Florida in his home town of Gainesville, Florida.
Haldeman became a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1971, and went on to chair eight San Francisco conventions.