Barry B. Longyear

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1981
  • Latest Book:
    January 2020
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Multi-Author Series List

Alien Nation

4 - The Change (Mar-1994)
5 - Slag Like Me (Jul-1994)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny—Humankind''s early reach for the stars:<BR <BR “The Jaren, five young backland aliens enlist to do war with the humans. “Enemy Mine, (the story that became the motion picture). “Savage Planet, a ...

  • The Tomorrow Testament

    The entire Enemy Mine series gathered in one volume:

  • It Came from Schenectady

    “This title is just a front for a collection of 12 stories, several of which are among the finest written within Longyear''s time as a writer. Hardly any of the dozen end as one might expect, and yet they''re not possessed of twist endings, mer...

  • Enemy Mine

    Enemy Mine—The Nebula and Hugo Award winner that inspired the 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett, Jr.<BR <BR The story of a man, incomplete in himself, taught to be a hu...

  • Sea of Glass

    A boy, who has known nothing in his brief life but love and darkness, forces open a window and sees for the first time the outside world, which also sees him: an illegal immigrant by birth. Arrested, his parents tortured to death, we see through Thom...

  • Naked Came the Robot

    The economy is the new cold war battlefield, robots and androids do the work, and the Interstellar Sprocket Conspiracy intends to oil its gears with the flesh of humanity. Cadet Sergeant Henry Fleming enlists in the economy to save America, is joined...

  • The God Box

    A less-than-honest merchant in the Iskandar market inherits a little box that will give him anything heneeds, which is not always what he wants. It''s a spiritual adventure through time and existence....

  • The Homecoming

    Inhabitants of Earth from seventy million years ago return to reclaim their planet. A struggling advertising man doing his six-month reserve call-up duty for the Air Force is sent to negotiate for the future existence of a newly evolved species: huma...

  • The Change

    Alien Nation - 4



  • Slag Like Me

    Alien Nation - 5

    Detective Matthew Sikes and his Newcomer partner George Francisco must track down a missing human journalist, named Micky Cass, who has gone undercover as a Newcomer to expose racism and discrimination against the Tenctonese. From the beginning, the ...

  • The Enemy Papers

    The entire Enemy Mine series gathered in one volume:
     
    The Talman, Enemy Mine (The expanded Nebula and Hugo Award winner that inspired the 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Dennis Quid and Lou Gossett, Jr.), the novels The Tomorrow...

  • City of Baraboo

  • Elephant Song

  • Infinity Hold

    The first work of the Infinity Hold trilogy. They named the planet Tartaros after the deepest of Hell''s hells. This is the story of a man and murderer, Bando Nicos, who was condemned to Tartaros and became the planet''s first police officer....

  • Saint Mary Blue

    "A barrel of laughs with a kick in the groin for a punch line...The laughs were good and the tears were better. If there's anyone out there whose life isn't affected by a drunk or junkie, he should still read Saint Mary Blue, just because it's good."...

  • Circus World

    Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus. Recently discovered by the rest of the galaxy, the population of Momus—the remaining descendants of the original circus—must deal with interstellar power politi...

  • Dark Corners

    Dark Corners is a collection of adventures in minds human and other than human. Some of the voyages are beautiful, inspiring, some are funny, some are sad, and some are terribly dangerous and frightening. These are stories of patients, therapists, co...

  • Jaggers & Shad: ABC Is for Artificial Beings Crimes

    From the seriously warped mind of author Barry B. Longyear. It's a world in which human engrams can be and are copied into bios that can be grown to resemble anything from movie stars to rats, and into mechanicals from lipstick-sized micros up to ful...

  • The Hangman's Son

    Trade Paperback, Joe Torio Mystery, 413 pages. When Major Crimes Unit Commander Al Dockery finds himself dealing with three seemingly unrelated series of killings at the same time, he calls his invalided former partner, Joe Torio, out of therapy. Sgt...



  • Just Enough Rope

    Trade Paperback, Joe Torio Mystery, 300 pages. Det. Sgt. Joe Torio is committed to a hospital for those with anger management issues to try to shake the frame being fitted on a giant of a convicted serial killer there for a murder the killer couldn't...

  • Geronimo

    He began life as a throwaway child in a dying Earth its inhabitants oblivious of their self-inflicted demise. Conceived out of rape and incest, inflicted with the hated nickname of "Geronimo," and thrust into a harsh existence, the gift of his birth ...

  • Changes

    Changes. After decades as director of iBlack, the wet-work and intelligence Division of Indigo Group Security, White Cloud's home state of Texas votes itself a freeland. Jerry retires and returns to Texas to bury his oldest friend and then to seek a ...

  • The Notice

    Three months before the U.S. midterm elections, the people of Texas vote themselves a freeland and independent of the United States. To honor the father of freelands, Juan-Diego Aguilar, as well as the history Texas had as part of the union, the lead...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barry B. Longyear has published 23 books.

Barry B. Longyear does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Notice, was published in January 2020.

The first book by Barry B. Longyear, Manifest Destiny, was published in April 1981.

No. Barry B. Longyear does not write books in series.
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