Forever Bound by Joe Haldeman (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This episode features "Forever Bound" written by Joe Haldeman. Originally published in Warriors, edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin. Reprinted in the the July issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. Text of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/haldeman_07_17_reprint Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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0:00.0	You are listening to a Clark's Old magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.
0:07.0	Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.
0:11.0	It is our second to the last story for the month of July 2017
0:15.0	issue 130. Did you know just off the top of your head that even robots need
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0:58.0	pledge your support. It's only a dollar or more a month to show that you appreciate what we do here.
1:07.0	So our sixth story for the month of July is titled Forever Bound and is by Joe Haldeman.
1:13.8	Born in Oklahoma,
1:15.0	Joe Haldeman took a BS degree in physics and astronomy
1:19.0	from the University of Maryland,
1:20.7	and did postgraduate work and mathematics in computer science.
1:24.0	But his plans for a career in science were cut short by the US Army,
1:29.0	which sent him to Vietnam in 1968
1:32.0	as a combat engineer.
1:35.0	Seriously wounded in action, Haldeman returned home in 1969 and began to write.
1:41.0	By 1976 he had garnered both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for his famous novel,
1:47.4	The Forever War, one of the landmark books of the 70s.
1:52.4	He has since won four more Hugo awards, another four Nebula awards, the James
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