Barry B. Longyear is the first writer to win the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer all in the same year. In addition to his acclaimed Enemy Mine Series, his works include the Circus World and Infinity Hold series, SF & fantasy novels, recovery and writing instruction works, and numerous short stories.
Barry has just completed the first novel in his Confessions of a Confederate Vampire Series, The Night. Check the "In The Works" page for the latest news on other projects in progress (such as maybe motion picture possibilities for his novel Sea of Glass).
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I have heard from several site-peekers that they have had difficulty finding out where they can buy my books. I figured you couldn't ball up and throw a rejection slip at this page without hitting one or more Buy links. To browse or buy from the selection, hang a click at the indicated spot to the right of this paragraph. I hope this helps make buying my books easier. Remember, all books are available in case lots and every purchase helps support a recovering skiier.
For those who would like to look over the goods and read a sample chapter or two, go to the BBL'S BOOK BROWSER link in the Quick Links column on the left.
We are arranging to have Barry Longyear's books, articles, and short stories available on Kindle. Go to the NEWS page for details.
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Barry Longyear's THE ENEMY PAPERS. Beginning with an expanded version of the multiple award winning "Enemy Mine," THE ENEMY PAPERS covers war and peace from a man's point-of-view, a woman's in The Tomorrow Testament, and an alien's in the final novel of the trilogy, The Last Enemy. It was an impossible war to end and planned to be that way. But the pain of war against the fantasy of peace has a funny way of making all kinds of beings think along new paths.
In addition to the complete Enemy Mine trilogy, this work includes a Drac-English English-Drac Berlitz for galactic travelers, the collected fragments of the Drac Talman, and two essays: "On Alien Languages" and "Run Drac Run." The former tells some of the fun and frustrations of inventing languages for creatures from outer space. The latter is the full, uncut, never-before-told tale of the writing of the trilogy, including the making of the motion picture Enemy Mine and surviving the writing of Enemy Mine: The Movie Tie-In novel (with David Gerrold).
Barry Longyear's INFINITY HOLD\3. They found a planet no one wanted and upon it created an unsupervised gravity well for unwanted human debris: political activists, terrorists, the criminally insane, and the insanely criminal. It was a dump in the middle of a lethal desert with no support facilities, authority, control, or law. They named the planet after the deepest of Hell's hells: Tartaros. This is the story of a man and murderer, Bando Nicos, who was condemned to Tartaros and became the planet's first police officer.
Infinity Hold\3 is the complete Infinity Hold trilogy: Infinity Hold, Kill All The Lawyers, and Keep The Law. What does a society of rejects and criminals dropped into a crucible of horror and desperation come up with as a legal system?
Because of my story in the January issue of F&SF, "The Monopoly Man," there have been questions about my book, Yesterday's Tomorrow. Yes it is in print and is available from this site, Hazelden, or almost any of the online booksellers. It is the meditation book for those who sometime need a little grit beneath their wheels or a kick in the ass to make it up that next hill. A sample:
PUTTING DOWN THE PADDLE. The regulars at the meeting had heard this line from this same person a dozen times or more, each time just before he was preparing to go out and use again. "I needed every last drink, drug, and destructive act that brought me here," he said. "I've had a lot of slips, but this time I'm back for good. This time I've really hit my bottom."
"You know," drawled a voice from the back of the room, "if you hit your bottom often enough they call it a spanking."
