The other day my Google Alerts alerted me to the fact that Joe Haldeman will be using Wastelands as one of the texts in his "Reading and Writing Genre Fiction" course that he’ll be teaching in the fall at MIT.

The other books are:

A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, Walter M. Miller
THE ROAD, Cormac McCarthy
THE MIST, Stephen King
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, James Lee Burke
I AM LEGEND, Richard Matheson

How cool is that? It’s not only being used as a text at MIT, but in a course taught by Joe Haldeman!