Barry B. Longyear

Barry B. Longyear
Longyear in 2009
Born	Barry Brookes Longyear (1942-05-12) May 12, 1942 (age 82) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Period	1990–present
Genre	Science fiction Mystery fiction Fantasy fiction
Notable works	Enemy Mine (1979) Sea of Glass (1987) Circus World (1980)
Notable awards	Hugo Award, Prometheus Award, Nebula, John W. Campbell Award, Analog

Barry Brookes Longyear ^[1] (born May 12, 1942 ^[1] ) is an American author who resides in New Sharon, Maine. ^[2]

Career

Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ^[1] Longyear is known best for the Hugo- and Nebula Award–winning novella Enemy Mine (1979, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine ), which was subsequently made into an identically titled movie (1985) and a novelization in collaboration with David Gerrold. The story is of an encounter between a human and an alien soldier, whose races are at war. They are marooned together in space and have to come to overcome their mutual distrust in order to cooperate and survive. A greatly expanded version of the original novella as well as two novels completing the trilogy, The Tomorrow Testament and The Last Enemy, are gathered with additional materials into The Enemy Papers .

The novella helped Longyear to win the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1980. He was the only writer to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell awards during the same year until this was matched by Rebecca Roanhorse in 2018.

He also wrote the series Circus World and Infinity Hold, several stand-alone novels, numerous short stories, and two books for the Alien Nation novelization series. His trilogy "Infinity Hold", "Kill All the Lawyers", and "Keep the Law", was released during 2002 in a single paperback volume titled Infinity Hold 3 by the Author's Guild in a Backinprint.com edition. His recent Jaggers & Shad mystery stories, featuring two detectives in the Artificial Beings Crimes Division (Devon Office), are set mostly in Exeter and the surrounding Devon countryside and villages. The first of the tales, The Good Kill won the Analog AnLab award for Best Novella in 2006 and Murder in Parliament Street won the same award for 2007. The Hook won the 2021 Prometheus Award.

The series Circus World chronicles the adventures of a space-going circus troupe whose spaceship crashes, marooning them on a deserted planet without contact with the outside world.

The series Infinity Hold concerns a society developing from a group of violent convicts dumped on a new planet without police or government.^{[ citation needed ]}

Saint Mary Blue centers around the course of treatment for a man with substance abuse and mental health problems, while resident in a treatment facility.

The God Box is a stand-alone secondary world fantasy novel in which the protagonist finds himself the keeper of a small wooden box that provides cryptic guidance from the gods.^{[ citation needed ]}

Longyear has also written a mystery series, The Hangman's Son trilogy (2011) and Rope Paper Scissors (2013), all featuring Joe Torio.

Published works

Stand-alone novels

• Sea of Glass (1987) ISBN   978-0595189656
• Naked Came the Robot (1988) ISBN   978-0595200689
• The God Box (1989) ISBN   978-0595121151
• The Homecoming (1989) ISBN   978-0802768636
• Jaggers & Shad: ABC Is for Artificial Beings Crimes (2010) ISBN   978-0615469560
• THe Candle Man (2024) ISBN   979-8320483320

Enemy Mine series

1. "Enemy Mine" (Asimov's Science Fiction, Sep 1979; 1980 Hugo, Nebula & Locus winner) ISBN   978-0595309764
2. The Tomorrow Testament (1983) ISBN   978-0595189663
3. The Last Enemy (1997) ISBN   978-0595348756

Omnibus

• The Enemy Papers , also containing additional material (1998) ISBN   1-56865-949-0

Infinity Hold series

1. Infinity Hold 1989 ISBN   978-0595092741
2. Infinity Hold\3 2002 (Containing Infinity Hold, Kill All the Lawyers, and Keep the Law)

Circus World series

1. Circus World (1980) ISBN   978-0595189670
2. City of Baraboo (1980) ISBN   978-0595121205
3. Elephant Song (1981) ISBN   978-0595121182

Joe Torio mysteries

• The Hangman's Son (2011) ISBN   978-0615483818
• Just Enough Rope (2012) ISBN   978-0615484129
• Rope (Book 1 of Rope Paper Scissors, 2013) ISBN   978-0615883854
• Paper (Book 2 of Rope Paper Scissors, 2013) ISBN   978-0615886725
• Scissors ((Book 3 of Rope Paper Scissors, 2013) ((ISBN|978-0615886749}}

The War Whisperer

• The War Whisperer: Book 1: Geronimo (2019)
• The War Whisperer: Book 2: Black (2019)
• The War Whisperer: Book 3: Misty (2019)
• The War Whisperer: Book 4: The RAT (2020)
• The War Whisperer: Book 5: The Hook (2020)
• The War Whisperer: Book 6: The Notice (2020) (Prometheus Award winner)
• The War Whisperer: Book 7: Changes (2020)

Recovery works

• Saint Mary Blue (novel set in a treatment facility), SteelDragon Press, 1988 ISBN   978-0595138852
• Yesterday's Tomorrow: Recovery Meditations for Hard Cases, Hazelden, 1997 ISBN   978-1568381602
• "The Monopoly Man" (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2009)

[[Alien Nation (novel series)|Alien Nation tie-in novels

• The Change (1994(
• Slag Like Me (994)

Nonfiction

• Science Fiction Writer's Workshop-I ISBN   978-0595225538
• The Write Stuff Online Writing Seminar
• Alien Runes: Building and Using Your Personal Oracle (2020) ISBN   979-8678307828
• Vade Mecum for Alien Runes (2020) ISBN   979-8678353610

Short story collections

• "The Tryouts" (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1978)
• Manifest Destiny (including "Enemy Mine" and others set in the same future history) ISBN   978-0425045305
• It Came from Schenectady ISBN   978-0595201723
• Dark Corners (2022) ISBN   978-0615471723
• The Fireteller Tales (2024) ISBN   979-8326072917)

References

1. "Summary Bibliography: Barry B. Longyear". Internet Speculative Fiction Database . Retrieved February 13, 2016.
2. "Barry Longyear". Hazelden Publishing. Archived from the original on November 11, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Barry B. Longyear at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database