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The Hemingway Hoax

By: Joe Haldeman
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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 The hoax proposed to John Baird by a two-bit con man in a seedy Key West bar was shady but potentially profitable. With little left to lose, the struggling, middle-aged Hemingway scholar agreed to forge a manuscript and pass it off as Papa's lost masterpiece. But Baird never realized his actions would shatter the history of his own Earth - and others. And now the unsuspecting academic is trapped out of time - propelled through a series of grim parallel worlds and pursued by an interdimensional hitman with a literary license to kill.

BONUS AUDIO: Author Joe Haldeman explains how, fittingly, the idea for The Hemingway Hoax wasn't entirely his.

©1990 Joe Haldeman (P)2008 Audible, Inc. Science Fiction Fiction

Critic Reviews

  • Hugo Award Winner, Best Novella, 1991

"A dazzling entertainment that builds to an astonishing and moving conclusion." (Peter Straub)
"Haldeman at his best: fast, literate, suspenseful, and mordantly funny." (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Not entirely satisfactory but it reeks of genius.

It’s a clever roller coaster introduction to Hemingway with twists and turns that make me wish Haldeman had taken this further.

Conceptually he’s renewed his commitment to postulating science and woven it around his imagination to create a fascinating glimpse into memetic theories of the multiverse.

This is good for your imagination…

Short but brilliant…

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