Jack Haldeman studied
environmental engineering and
biology at the
University of Oklahoma, and received a degree from
Johns Hopkins University. 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
CD-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. "High Steel", a 1982 story co-authored with
Jack Dann, was a
Nebula Award nominee; it was later expanded into a novel. Haldeman became a member of the
Science Fiction Writers of America in 1971, and went on to chair eight SF conventions. He was married to writer
Barbara Delaplace; they collaborated on stories beginning with "That'll be the Day" in the anthology
Alternate Tyrants. Haldeman died of
cancer in 2002, at the Hospice of North Central Florida in his hometown of
Gainesville, Florida. ==Bibliography==