Forever War, Finally Film
Variety posts news that director Ridley Scott has acquired film rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 Hugo and Nebula award winning novel The Forever War. Science fiction fans have been waiting for someone to make a film of this novel for many years, and in Scott’s hands it will hopefully receive a respectful and visionary treatment. Perhaps less well known is that The Forever War was published while Joe Haldeman was a student in the Writers Workshop here at the University of Iowa, and a first edition of the novel was submitted as his thesis. This copy circulated for many years in the library, and was eventually rebound into a blue library binding. It has now been transferred to Special Collections. The Haldemans have deep links to Iowa fandom, such as instigating the Icon convention, which will be meeting for its 33rd year Halloween weekend at the Coralville Marriott.
