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Bio & Awards

Barry B. Longyear is the first writer to win the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, all in the same year. In addition to his acclaimed Enemy Mine series, his works include numerous short stories, the Circus World series, the Infinity Hold series, and novels ranging from Sea of Glass to The God Box, as well as his much praised Science-fiction Writer's Workshop-I. His Online writing seminar, The Write Stuff, is now available as a trade paperback and in Kindle format. His recent works include Jaggers & Shad: ABC is for Artificial Beings Crimes, the complete award-winning series that appeared in Analog, Dark Corners, his hardest hitting collection of stories from the dark side; and the Joe Torio Mystery Series: The Hangman's Son, Just Enough Rope, and Rope Paper Scissors published as three books: Rope, Paper, and Scissors. He is currently working on his magnum opus, a political/spy/coming of age science fiction thriller titled: The War Whisperer.

Awards & Nominations

1979 (Nomination) John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.
1979 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.
1979 Hugo Award, best novella, "Enemy Mine."
1979 Nebula Award, best novella, "Enemy Mine."
1979 Locus Award, best novella, "Enemy Mine."
1979 (Nomination) Hugo Award, best novelette, "Homecoming."
1980 (Nomination), Hugo Award, best novelette, "Savage Planet."
1980 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novelette, "Savage Planet."
1980 (Nomination), AnLab Award, best novelette, "Savage Planet."
1981 (Nomination) Locus Award, Single Author Collection, Manifest Destiny.
1981 Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Maine at Farmington.
1982 (Nomination), AnLab Award, best short story, "Collector's Item."
1984 (Nomination) Prometheus Award, best novel, The Tomorrow Testament.
1990 (Finalist) Philip K. Dick Award, best novel, Infinity Hold.
1990 (Nomination) Prometheus Award, best novel, Infinity Hold.
1991 (Nomination) Prometheus Hall of Fame, Circus World
1993 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novelette, "Chimaera."
1994 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novelette, "The Death Addict."
1999 (Nomination) Prometheus Hall of Fame, Circus World
2002 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novella, "Silent Her."
2006 AnLab Award, best novella, "The Good Kill."
2007 AnLab Award, best novella, "Murder in Parliament Street."
2021 Prometheus Award, best novel, The Hook (Book 5 of The War Whisperer).