Young Adult short story, the third of the Stardancer campfire tales which have been described as "children's stories for adults."
The Stardancer is a kind of shaman who conducts storytelling ceremonies for the tribe's children that last for days and nights at a time. The Stardancer is also a bit of a magician able to send the listener into the story settings and character and off onto other worlds whose creatures face the same challenges of honor and courage as the warriors of this world.
"Windrunner and the Changa" is a rite of passage tale set upon an ice world where to become an adult a boy must face the biggest, fiercest, most horrible monster there ever was: The Changa
Good bedtime read. It helps to chase those monsters out from under the bed and into someone else's closet.
INFINITY HOLD\3, all three novels of the Infinity Hold saga, is available as a Kindle, and all but one of the link problems with Amazon have been resolved.
Enjoy one of the best series I ever wrote.
Description: The complete Infinity Hold Trilogy and authors introduction. Three full novels: Infinity Hold, Kill All The Lawyers, and Keep The Law. It is the saga of convict and murderer Bando Nicos who becomes the first police officer in Hell's Hell. Kindle Edition $7.95
On Amazon's page for Infinity Hold\3, the edition marked as $2.99 is only for Infinity Hold, the first novel in the series. Simply one of many of life's fascinating little mysteries.
INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM: Trailblazing Tales From Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 200-2010 [Kindle Edition]
This anthology in Kindle format is from one of the world's great SF magazines and is available now. Stories from authors Brad R. Torgersen, Barry B. Longyear, Rajnar Vajra, Carl Frederick, Michael F. Flynn, Robert J. Sawyer, Marianne J. Dyson, Stephen Baxter, and Richard A. Lovett. Edited by Stanley Schmidt. For serious readers of SF, give yourself a treat and click on the image.
Contains Barry Longyear's Jaggers & Shad novelette, "The Purloined Labradoodle."
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At last, Barry B. Longyear's THE ENEMY PAPERS, containing the complete Enemy Mine Trilogy in addition to The Talman, the Drac bible, the Drac-English and English-Drac dictionaries, and two essays is now a Kindle at a fraction of the current trade paperback price.
This has been a long time in coming and we are pleased to be able to offer this monumental work at such savings.
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The Write Stuff is now available both in Kindle format and trade paperback. The Kindle price is $9.95, which is approximately 75% off the original price of the online seminar (which is no longer being offered). The trade paperback edition is $16.95, less than half the Online Seminar price.
I've incorporated much of the feedback I received from my original online participants and from editors Stanley Schmidt of Analog and Gordon Van Gelder of F&SF. The work has been simplified, tightened up, and is even more so the most effective way you can develop the skills and remove the blocks enabling you to write the best stories of which you are capable.
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Archive aTwitMystery #4 The Sunday PapersPoetry of a Serial Killer, backgrounding for The Hangman's Son by Barry B. Longyear
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For the first time since its appearance in the Future Wars anthology (Daw, 2003)my novelette BIFROST CROSSING is now available as a Kindle ebook. It's a special story for more reasons than I can recount in this limited space. If you are one of those who find a bit of interest, albeit some puzzlement, in what mental corner I'll next explore, add this to your list.
