num_pages: 160
description: Around 1991, Haldeman wrote: ""What is the book about? The subtitle A 'Short Comic Novel of Existential Terror' is accurate. In a way, it's a horror novel tinged with ghastly humor, as the apparently insane ghost of Ernest Hemingway murders a helpless scholar over and over; the scholar slipping from one universe to the next each time he dies, in what is apparently a rather unpleasant form of serial immortality. The tongue-in-cheek explanations for how this could happen qualify the book as a science fiction novel. ... It may be the most 'literary' of my books, but it also has the most explicit sex and the most gruesome violence I've ever written. Nobody will be bored by it."
language: English
title: The Hemingway Hoax
titlecomplete: The Hemingway Hoax
genres: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novella, Fiction, Alternate History, Short Stories, Fantasy, Hugo Awards
ratings_count: 1323
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novella, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novella, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novella and Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novella, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Best Novella, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Asimov's Readers' Poll Award
category: Best Novella
publisher: Avon Books