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Barry Brookes Longyear (b. 1942, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American author best known for his novella, Enemy Mine. Longyear is a Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award winner

Longyear's family moved several times in his childhood and he attended several different schools, including Staunton Military Academy in Staunton Virginia from which he graduated in 1960.

Longyear then attended art school in Pittsburg before enlisting in the Army. He served with the 30th Artillery Brigade on Okinawa as a HAWK missile and launcher technician and later with 6th Missile Battalion. After being discharged he attended Wayne State University but never graduated. He met wife Regina and the two eloped and moved around a bit before settling in Farmington, Maine.

Several jobs and ownership of a printing company, Longyear wrote and so ld his first short story, Tryouts to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1978. His first book, Circus World was a collection of his short stories. After several short stories he had great success with his novella Enemy Mine which was made into a film in 1985.

The success did not have a positive effect on Longyear, however. In 1981 he enter St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center in Minneapolis for treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. His experiences led to the novel Saint Mary Blue. His experiences in rehab proved life changing.

In 1998, Longyear graduated from the International Correspondence Schools as a Private Investigator. He has led writing workshops and seminars and taught creative writing at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Contents 1 Novels 2 Short Stories 3 Awards 4 External Links

Novels

• Sea of Glass (1986)
• Saint Mary Blue (1988)
• Naked Came the Robot (1988)
• The God Box (1989)
• The Homecoming (1989)
• Infinity Hold (1989)

Circus World

• Circus World (1980)
• City of Baraboo (1980)
• Elephant Song (1981)

Enemy Mine

• The Tomorrow Testament (1983)
• Enemy Mine (1985) (with David Gerrold)
• The Last Enemy (1997)

Alien Nation

• The Change (1994)
• Slag Like Me (1994)

Story Collection

• Manifest Destiny (1980)
• It Came from Schenectady (1984)
• The Enemy Papers (1998)

Short Stories

• "The Magician's Apprentice" (1978)
• "Proud Rider" (1978)
• "The Second Law" (1978)
• "The Tryouts" (1978)
• "Dueling Clowns" (1979)
• "Enemy Mine (short story)" (1979)
• "Homecoming" (1979)
• "The Jaren" (1979)
• "Priest of the Baraboo" (1979)
• "The Quest" (1979)
• "Savage Planet" (1980)
• "Still Waters" (1994)
• "The Gray Ghost" (1997)
• "Preliminary Report" (1999)
• "USE Force"

Awards

• 1979 (Nomination) John W. Campbell Award for best new writer
• 1980 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer
• 1980 Hugo Award, best novella, 1979, "Enemy Mine."
• 1980 (Nomination) Hugo Award, best novelette, 1979, "Homecoming."
• 1980 Nebula Award, best novella, 1979, "Enemy Mine."
• 1980 Locus Award, best novella, 1979, "Enemy Mine."
• 1981 (Nomination), Hugo Award, best novelette, 1980, "Savage Planet."
• 1981 Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Maine at Farmington
• 1984 (Nomination) Prometheus Award, best novel, 1983, The Tomorrow Testament.
• 1990 (Nomination) Philip K. Dick Award, best novel, 1989, Infinity Hold.
• 1990 (Nomination) Prometheus Award, best novel, 1989, Infinity Hold.

External Links

• Barry B. Longyear at ISFDB.org

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