Barry B. Longyear (born May 12, 1942) is an award-winning US science fiction author and screenwriter who resides in New Sharon, Maine. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the New Sharon is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States.
He is best known for the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella "Enemy Mine", which was subsequently made into an identically titled movie and a novelization in collaboration with David Gerrold. The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best Science fiction or Fantasy works and achievements of the previous year The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA for the best Science fiction / Fantasy fiction "Enemy Mine" is a Science fiction Novella by Barry B Longyear. Enemy Mine is a 1985 Science fiction film based on the story of the same title by Barry B David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman ( January 24, 1944) in Chicago Illinois, is a Science fiction author who started his career The story tells of an encounter between a human and an alien soldier, whose races are in a state of war. They are marooned together in space and have to come to grips with the universal problem of facing and accepting xenophobia. Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries
This story in part helped Longyear to win the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer. He is the only writer to win the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Campbell in the same year. (Contrast the other SF "triple crown" winner: William Gibson with the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award in 1984. William Ford Gibson (born March 17 1948 is an American - Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the Cyberpunk subgenre The Philip K Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005 supported Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) )
He also wrote the "Circus World" series (among his first published works), several stand-alone novels and numerous short stories, and two books for the Alien Nation novelisation series.
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Published works
Novels
- Sea of Glass
- The God Box
Dracon stories
- Enemy Mine (1979)
- The Last Enemy (1997)
- The Tomorrow Testament (1983)
Collected in The Enemy Papers
Circus World
- Circus World (1980)
- City of Baraboo (1980)
- Elephant Song (1981)
Short story collections
- Manifest Destiny (including "Enemy Mine" and others in the same future history)
- It Came from Schenectady
Anthology Magazines
- The Good Kill Analog Magazine November, 2006
- The Hangingstone Rat Analog Magazine October, 2007
- Murder On Parliament Street Analog Magazine November, 2007
External links
- Bibliography at SciFan
- Barry B. Longyear's website
- Review of City of Baraboo by Aaron V. Sea of Glass is a Dystopian Science fiction novel by Barry B Longyear published by St The Enemy Papers (White Wolf Publishing 1998 ISBN 1-56865-949-0 is a short story collection by Barry B Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American Science fiction Magazine. Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American Science fiction Magazine. Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American Science fiction Magazine. SciFan is an Online Database for fans of Science fiction and Fantasy Books. Humphrey
- His page at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Extensive biography and bibliography
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