Clones (Ace Science Fiction) by Jack Dann

Author:Jack Dann [Dann, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780441005222
Amazon: 0441005225
Publisher: Ace
Published: 1998-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

BLOOD SISTERS

Joe Haldeman

Here's a suspenseful and fast-paced look at a crisis in the career of a hard-boiled twenty-first-century private detective, a detective who has to deal with problems that Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe never even dreamed of . . .

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Joe Haldeman took a B.S. degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Maryland and did postgraduate work in mathematics and computer science. But his plans for a career in science were cut short by the U.S. Army, which sent him to Vietnam in 1968 as a combat engineer. Seriously wounded in action, Haldeman returned home in 1969 and began to write. He sold his first story to Galaxy in 1969, and by 1976 had garnered both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for his famous novel The Forever War, one of the landmark books of the seventies. He took another Hugo Award in 1977 for his story "Tricentennial," won the Rhysling Award in 1983 for the best science fiction poem of the year (although usually thought of primarily as a "hard-science" writer, Haldeman is, in fact, also an accomplished poet, and has sold poetry to most of the major professional markets in the genre), and won both the Nebula and the Hugo Award in 1991 for the novella version of "The Hemingway Hoax." His story "None So Blind" won the Hugo Award in 1995. His other books include a mainstream novel, War Year, the SF novels Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered, There Is No Darkness (written with his brother, SF writer Jack C. Haldeman II) Worlds, Worlds Apart, Worlds Enough and Time, Buying Time, and The Hemingway Hoax, the "techno-thriller" Tools of the Trade, the collections Infinite Dreams, Dealing in Futures, and Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds, and, as editor, the anthologies Study War No More, Cosmic Laughter, and Nebula Award Stories Seventeen. His most recent books are a major new mainstream novel, 1969, and a new collection, None So Blind. Haldeman lives part of the year in Boston, where he teaches writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the rest of the year in Florida, where he and his wife, Gay, make their home.

So I used to carry two different business cards: J. Michael Loomis, Data Concentration, and Jack Loomis, Private Investigator. They mean the same thing, nine cases out of ten. You have to size up a potential customer, decide whether he'd feel better hiring a shamus or a clerk.

Some people still have these romantic notions about private detectives and get into a happy sweat at the thought of using one. But it is the 21st century and, endless Bogart reruns notwithstanding, most of my work consisted of sitting at my office console and using it to subvert the privacy laws of various states and countries—finding out embarrassing things about people, so other people could divorce them or fire them or get a piece of the slickery.

Not to say I didn't go out on the street sometimes; not to say I didn't have a gun and a ticket for it.

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