Awards Summary
Career and Special Awards: 5
Major Awards: 13
Locus Awards: 4
Other Awards: 13
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 116
Times Served as Judge: 2
Phoenix Award —
for lifetime achievement, presented by DeepSouthCon
— winner
Skylark Award —
for contribution to SF in the spirit of E.E. "Doc" Smith; presented by NESFA
Hugo Awards —
for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(8 nominations; 5 wins)
“Four Short Novels” (F&SF Oct/Nov 2003)
— short story — nomination
Forever Peace (Ace)
— novel — winner
“None So Blind” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
— short story — winner
“The Hemingway Hoax” (Asimov's Apr 1990)
— novella — winner
Mindbridge (St. Martin's)
— novel — nomination
“Tricentennial” (Analog Jul 1976)
— short story — winner
The Forever War (St. Martin's)
— novel — winner
“Hero” (Analog Jun 1972)
— novella — nomination
Nebula Awards —
for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(9 nominations; 5 wins)
The Accidental Time Machine (Ace)
— novel — nomination
Camouflage (Analog Mar,Apr,May 2004; Ace)
— novel — winner
Forever Peace (Ace)
— novel — winner
“None So Blind” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
— short story — nomination
“Graves” (F&SF Oct/Nov 1992)
— short story — winner
“The Hemingway Hoax” (Asimov's Apr 1990)
— novella — winner
“More Than the Sum of His Parts” (Playboy May 1985)
— short story — nomination
“Tricentennial” (Analog Jul 1976)
— short story — nomination
The Forever War (St. Martin's)
— novel — winner
(2 nominations; 1 win)
“Graves” (F&SF Oct/Nov 1992)
— short story — winner (tie)
“The Hemingway Hoax” (Asimov's Apr 1990)
— novella — nomination
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Camouflage (Ace)
— winner (tie)
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Forever Peace (Ace)
— winner
Locus Awards —
for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(46 nominations; 4 wins)
Work Done for Hire (Ace)
— sf novel — 15th place
The Best of Joe Haldeman (Subterranean)
— collection — 2nd place
Earthbound (Ace)
— sf novel — 11th place
Starbound (Ace)
— sf novel — 11th place
“Sleeping Dogs” (Gateways)
— short story — 9th place
Marsbound (Ace)
— sf novel — 5th place
The Accidental Time Machine (Ace)
— sf novel — 5th place
“The Mars Girl” (Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space)
— novella — 2nd place
A Separate War and Other Stories (Ace)
— collection — 7th place
Old Twentieth (Ace)
— sf novel — 7th place
“Angel of Light” (Cosmos Dec 2005)
— short story — 10th place
Camouflage (Ace)
— sf novel — 6th place
“Faces” (F&SF Jun 2004)
— short story — 6th place
“Four Short Novels” (F&SF Oct/Nov 2003)
— short story — 2nd place
Guardian (Ace)
— sf novel — 13th place
The Coming (Ace)
— sf novel — 4th place
Forever Free (Ace)
— sf novel — 6th place
Forever Peace (Ace)
— sf novel — 3rd place
None So Blind (Morrow AvoNova)
— collection — winner
“For White Hill” (Far Futures)
— novelette — 7th place
“None So Blind” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
— short story — winner
“Feedback” (Playboy Mar 1993)
— short story — 7th place
Worlds Enough And Time (Morrow)
— sf novel — 11th place
“Graves” (F&SF Oct/Nov 1992)
— short story — 3rd place
“Images” (F&SF May 1991)
— short story — 12th place
The Hemingway Hoax (Morrow)
— sf novel — 14th place
“The Hemingway Hoax” (Asimov's Apr 1990)
— novella — 3rd place
Buying Time (Morrow; NEL)
— sf novel — 15th place
Dealing in Futures (Viking)
— collection — 9th place
Worlds Apart (Viking)
— sf novel — 14th place
Nebula Award Stories 17 (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
— anthology — 16th place
Worlds (Viking)
— sf novel — 15th place
“Lindsay and the Red City Blues” (Dark Forces)
— short story — 16th place
“Blood Sisters” (Playboy Jul 1979)
— short story — 8th place (tie)
Infinite Dreams (St. Martin's)
— single author collection — 5th place
Study War No More (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 17th place
All My Sins Remembered (St. Martin's)
— sf novel — 20th place
Mindbridge (St. Martin's)
— novel — 2nd place
“Tricentennial” (Analog Jul 1976)
— short story — winner
The Forever War (St. Martin's)
— novel — winner
“End Game” (Analog Jan 1975)
— novelette — 14th place
“Anniversary Project” (Analog Oct 1975)
— short story — 8th place
The Forever War (St. Martin's)
— novel — 8th place
Cosmic Laughter (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
— reprint anthology — 9th place
“Hero” (Analog Jun 1972)
— novella — 4th place
(2 nominations; 1 win)
“Ectopoiesis”
— poetry — 2nd place (tie)
“This Space for Rent” (Analog Nov 1978)
— science fact — winner
(21 nominations; 2 wins)
“Curse of the Clock” (Asimov's Nov/Dec 2022)
— poem — 5th place
“Future History” (Asimov's)
— poem — winner
“Gene's Dreams” (Asimov's)
— poem — 2nd place
“The Dark Man” (Asimov's Feb 2003)
— poem — 3rd place
“January Fires” (Asimov's Jan 2001)
— poem — winner
“Dying Live on CNN” (Asimov's Aug 2000)
— poem — 2nd place
“Fire on Ice” (Asimov's Jul 2000)
— poem — 5th place (tie)
“Dog Star” (Asimov's Mar 1999)
— poem — 10th place
“None So Blind” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
— short story — 10th place
“Big Boom” (Asimov's May 1994)
— poem — 2nd place (tie)
“waiting to explode” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
— poem — 3rd place (tie)
“Solo” (Asimov's May 1993)
— poem — 7th place
“Carbon Star” (Asimov's Oct 1991)
— poem — 7th place
“The Number of the Man” (Asimov's Jun 1991)
— poem — 9th place (tie)
“The SF Editor's Lament” (Asimov's Feb 1991)
— poem — 3rd place
“The Hemingway Hoax” (Asimov's Apr 1990)
— novella — 5th place (tie)
“Astrology Column” (Asimov's Dec 1990)
— poem — 4th place (tie)
“The Cepheid Variable” (Asimov's Sep 1990)
— poem — 10th place (tie)
“Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh” (Asimov's Aug 1990)
— poem — 10th place (tie)
“The Star: From and For Arthur C. Clarke” (Asimov's Jul 1990)
— poem — 6th place (tie)
“The Gift” (Asimov's Feb 1987)
— poem — 2nd place
Ditmar Awards —
for Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(1 nomination; 1 win)
The Forever War (St. Martin's)
— international sf — winner
HOMer Awards —
for SF/F works, voted by members of SF/F forum on CompuServe
(1 nomination; 1 win)
“None So Blind” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
— short story — winner
Ignotus Awards —
for SF works published in Spain, voted by members of Spanish SF Association
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Forever Peace
— foreign novel — winner
(1 nomination)
— all-time best sf author — 44th place (tie)
Phantastik Preis —
for SF/F works published in Germany, polled by readers of Phantastik.de website
(1 nomination)
Forever Free
— foreign novel — nomination
Rhysling Awards —
for SF/F poetry, voted by members of the SF Poetry Association
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
“god is dead short live god”
— short poem — 2nd place
“Old Twentieth: a century full of years”
— long poem — 2nd place
“January Fires” (Asimov's Jan 2001)
— long poem — winner
“Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh” (Asimov's Aug 1990)
— short poem — winner
“Saul's Death” (There Will Be War)
— long poem — winner
(2 nominations; 1 win)
“None So Blind” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
— short story — winner
“The Hemingway Hoax” (Asimov's Apr 1990)
— novella — 2nd place
Seiun Awards —
for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(3 nominations)
Camouflage
— translated long form — nomination
“A Separate War”
— foreign short story — nomination
Forever Peace
— overseas long fiction — nomination
(1 nomination)
Forever Peace (Ace)
— sf/fantasy book — 9th place
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
Camouflage (Ace)
— novel — winner
“Faces” (F&SF Jun 2004)
— short fiction — winner
— lifetime achievement — winner
Guardian (Ace)
— novel — nomination
— life achievement — nomination