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John Barnes (born 1957) is an American science fiction author.

Writing

Two of his novels, The Sky So Big and Black and The Duke of Uranium have been reviewed as having content appropriate for a young adult readership, comparing favorably to Robert A. Heinlein's "juvenile" novels. He has contributed to the Internet Evolution website.

Technical career

Barnes has done work in systems analysis, business statistics, software reliability theory, sentiment analysis, statistical semiotics, and formal specification.

Personal life

Barnes's hometown is Bowling Green, Ohio. Barnes earned a B.A. degree from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.A. degree from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. degree in theater from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught at Western State College. He lives in Colorado. Barnes has been married three times and divorced twice.

Bibliography

Century Next Door series

• Orbital Resonance (1991)
• Kaleidoscope Century (1995)
• Candle (2000)
• The Sky So Big and Black (2002)

Thousand Cultures series

The four novels in the Thousand Cultures series include the theme of the effects of globalization, at an interstellar scale, on isolated societies.

• A Million Open Doors (1992)
• Earth Made of Glass (1998)
• The Merchants of Souls (2001)
• The Armies of Memory (2006)

Time Raider series

• Wartide (1992)
• Battle Cry (1992)
• Union Fires (1992)

Timeline Wars series

• Patton's Spaceship (1997)
• Washington's Dirigible (1997)
• Caesar's Bicycle (1997)
• Timeline Wars (1997) (omnibus volume)
• "Upon Their Backs, to Bite 'Em" (2000) (a crossover story included in Drakas!)

Jak Jinnaka series

• Duke of Uranium (2002)
• A Princess of the Aerie (2003)
• In the Hall of the Martian King (2003)

Daybreak series

• Directive 51 (2010)
• Daybreak Zero (2011)
• The Last President (2014)

The Last President was originally scheduled for 2012, but was delayed due to disagreements between Barnes and the publisher over the direction the series was taking. The final book in the series was published by Ace in 2014. Barnes is considering re-writing the first two books to make them more consistent with his original conception of the series.

Other books

• The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (1987)
• Sin of Origin (1988)
• Mother of Storms (1994)
• Encounter With Tiber (with Buzz Aldrin (1996)
• One For the Morning Glory (1996)
• 'Apocalypses and Apostrophes' (1998) (a short story collection also published as Apostrophes and Apocalypses)
• Finity (1999)
• The Return, with Buzz Aldrin (2001)
• Gaudeamus (2004) (meta-referential work blending fiction and reality)
• Payback City (2007) (thriller, written in 1997, self-published e-book)
• Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 (2009) (YA/non-SF, a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book)
• Losers in Space (2012) (YA/SF)
• Raise the Gipper! (2012) (SF/fantasy/political satire)

Short fiction

• "The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees" (2010) (short story, in Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan)

Awards

• Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1992) : Orbital Resonance
• Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1993) : A Million Open Doors
• Hugo Award Best Novel nominee (1995) : Mother of Storms
• Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1996) : Mother of Storms
• Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book (2010): Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973

See also

• One True, fictional artificial intelligence central to the Century Next Door series.

References

1. "Review, The Sky So Big and Black and The Duke of Uranium reviews at Locus". Archived from the original on 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2006-12-12.
2. "Articles by John Barnes | CIO". www.cio.com. Archived from the original on 2019-10-27.
3. "Amazon.com: John Barnes: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". amazon.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
4. "Blogger: User Profile: John Barnes". blogger.com. Archived from the original on 2015-08-04. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
5. "Amazon.com Customer Discussions > John Barnes forum Has Daybreak 3 - "The Last President" been cancelled???". Amazon. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
6. "Bibliography: Apocalypses and Apostrophes". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Archived from the original on 2018-11-13. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
7. * Finity review, x, y, z, t: dimensions of science fiction, Damien Broderick, 2004, p. 152
8. Barnes, John (2014). Gaudeamus. New York: Tor. ISBN 9780765311986.
9. John Barnes (20 April 2012). "Approachably Reclusive". thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
10. Tilton, Lois (December 7, 2010). "Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early December". Locus. Archived from the original on January 7, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
11. Seel, Nigel (April 11, 2011). "Book Review: Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan". ScienceFiction.com. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
12. Waters, Robert E. (March 8, 2011). "Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan". Tangent. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
13. "The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees". 28 April 2015. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

External links

• John Barnes at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Barnes personal weblog
• Barnes weblog (old, inactive)
• 2008 interview at HardSF website

• 1957 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American novelists
• 20th-century American male writers
• 21st-century American novelists
• American male novelists
• American science fiction writers
• American male short story writers
• 20th-century American short story writers
• 21st-century American short story writers
• 21st-century American male writers
• Washington University in St. Louis alumni
• University of Montana alumni
• University of Pittsburgh alumni
• Western State Colorado University faculty