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Barry B. Longyear

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born

January 01, 1942 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.barrylongyear.net

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

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Barry is the first writer to win the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer all in the same year, for Enemy Mine. 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. He has just completed the first novel in his Redcliff Series, Turning The Grain, which is being serialized in Analog Science Fiction magazine, and is currently researching his new Civil War mystery-thriller.

Series:
* Circus World
* Enemy Mine

Series contributed to:
* Alien Nation

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Books by Barry B. Longyear

Average rating: 3.95 · 737 ratings · 98 reviews · 35 distinct works

	Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear, David Gerrold (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Sea of Glass 4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Circus World 3.87 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The God Box 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	City of Baraboo 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Elephant Song 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Slag Like Me 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Infinity Hold 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Enemy Papers 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Change 3.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1994	My rating:

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Series by Barry B. Longyear

Enemy Mine (3 books)
by Barry B. Longyear, David Gerrold (Goodreads Author)

4.08 avg rating — 215 ratings

Circus World (3 books)
by Barry B. Longyear

4.01 avg rating — 127 ratings

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Quotes by Barry B. Longyear

“Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit." - Yazi Ro”
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“Lawn roller? ... What is it for?"
Why it is for rolling lawns."
I shook my head and laughed back at him. "Do I look like I have hay in my ears fellow? Just why, madman, would anyone want to roll a lawn? There would be nothing left but mud, and the grass would die from lack of sun."
No, Korvas. Rolling means to flatten."
No, it doesn't. A roller rollsa a flattener flattens."
Obushawn sighed and nodded. "Very well, it is a lawn flattener. It's for flattening lawns."
I see no purpose in it. If I wanted a flat lawn, that's what I would have planted in the first place. I think you are a failure at business, you obviously drink to excess, and beat your wife, dog, and children, you steal from the temple and blind beggars, and are most likely well on your way to being put away in a home. I do not want to talk to you anymore. Go away.”
― Barry B. Longyear

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“Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.”
― Barry B. Longyear

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