Barry B. Longyear
Author of Circus World
About the Author
Series
Works by Barry B. Longyear
The Last Enemy 4 copies
The Monopoly Man 2 copies
Slaughterhouse 2 copies
Adagio 2 copies
Writer's Paint Box: Screen-Handy English Rules and When to Break Them for Writers of Readable Writing (English… (2015) 1 copy
Enemy Mine, the Author's Cut 1 copy
Dușmanul 1 copy
ISAAC ASIMOV´S.- Revista ciencia ficción nº11. Índice: Barry B. Longyear: "La segunda ley",… (1981) 1 copy
City of Bariboo 1 copy
Chimaera {novelette} 1 copy
The Book of Baraboo 1 copy
THE GOOD KILL 1 copy
L.a. In L.a. 1 copy
The Purloined Labradoodle 1 copy
Savage planet (novelette) 1 copy
Homecoming [short story] 1 copy
Turning The Grain 1 1 copy
Turning the Grain 2 1 copy
THE HANGINGSTONE RAT 1 copy
Murder In Parliament Street 1 copy
Associated Works
The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries (2006) — Contributor — 148 copies, 4 reviews
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and Other Stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1992) — Contributor — 65 copies
Spaceships and Spells: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science-fiction Stories (1987) — Contributor — 25 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 4, No. 3 [March 1980] (1980) — Contributor — 19 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 3, No. 8 [August 1979] (1979) — Contributor — 14 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 3, No. 1 [January 1979] (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 4, No. 11 [November 1980] (1980) — Contributor — 12 copies
I Premi Hugo 1976-1983 — Contributor — 3 copies
Aboriginal Science Fiction No. 55 & 56 Spring 1998 — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Longbeard, Frederick (pseudonym)
- Birthdate
- 1942-05-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Maine, USA
- Organizations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Awards and honors
- John W. Campbell Award (1980)
Members
Reviews
Manifest destiny by Barry B. Longyear
Contains the story, Enemy Mine
As much a sociological tract as a novel, still it's by Barry B. Longyear so "Slag Like Me" is bound to be interesting and worth reading.
From the context of today and the Biden administration's policy of an open southern border, the premise of "Slag" has become even more relevant.
How do people treat other people, especially different other people? What should government's response be? (Government involvement always worsens any problem or perceived problem, but that is my position and not necessarily author Longyear's. It's also an obvious fact, made more obvious daily.)
The story is set in a future Los Angeles, where every kind of person, every ethnicity, every orientation, already resides, so its premise is entirely plausible.
Not Barry Longyear's greatest book -- that might still be "Infinity Hold" -- but still of interest and, as I already said, worth reading.
Author Longyear makes clear he owes a debt to the book "Black Like Me," also worth reading.… (more)
From the context of today and the Biden administration's policy of an open southern border, the premise of "Slag" has become even more relevant.
How do people treat other people, especially different other people? What should government's response be? (Government involvement always worsens any problem or perceived problem, but that is my position and not necessarily author Longyear's. It's also an obvious fact, made more obvious daily.)
The story is set in a future Los Angeles, where every kind of person, every ethnicity, every orientation, already resides, so its premise is entirely plausible.
Not Barry Longyear's greatest book -- that might still be "Infinity Hold" -- but still of interest and, as I already said, worth reading.
Author Longyear makes clear he owes a debt to the book "Black Like Me," also worth reading.… (more)
I really enjoyed this book. In part because it's not what you think it's going to be when you first start reading it... how good can a book about prisoners dropped onto a planet to fend for themselves be? It's great to see the group come together and work on forming a functional society.
Turns out this is a book in a series and I really want to get the other two and read them as well.
Turns out this is a book in a series and I really want to get the other two and read them as well.
It's pretty good for an almost 40-year-old fixup novel.
It's also an interesting read for me personally. Longyear's book on writing was a book I read pretty early on in my writing life, and a lot of the stories that were used in this novel were also used as writing examples. Made for a lot of "Oh, so that's how that story went" (the rest of those tales show up in It Came from Schenectady, btw).
It's also an interesting read for me personally. Longyear's book on writing was a book I read pretty early on in my writing life, and a lot of the stories that were used in this novel were also used as writing examples. Made for a lot of "Oh, so that's how that story went" (the rest of those tales show up in It Came from Schenectady, btw).
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Nebula Award (1)
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Statistics
- Works
- 68
- Also by
- 38
- Members
- 2,212
- Popularity
- #11,594
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 27
- ISBNs
- 89
- Languages
- 2
- Favorited
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