John Barnes (author) explained

John Barnes
Birth Place:	Angola, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation:	Author
Nationality:	American
Education:	Washington University in St. Louis (BA) University of Montana (MA) University of Pittsburgh (PhD)
Genre:	Science fiction

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] ^[4] 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.^[5]

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^[6])
Finity (1999)^[7]
The Return, with Buzz Aldrin (2001)
Gaudeamus (2004)^[8] (meta-referential work blending fiction and reality)
Payback City (2007) (thriller, written in 1997, self-published e-book)
(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)^[9]

Short fiction

"The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees" (2010) (short story, in Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan)^[10] ^[11] ^[12] ^[13]

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

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Review, The Sky So Big and Black and The Duke of Uranium reviews at Locus . 2006-12-12 . 2017-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171015205835/http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Reviews/Horton10_YA.html . live .
Web site: Articles by John Barnes CIO . www.cio.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20191027043616/https://www.cio.com/author/John-Barnes/ . 2019-10-27.
Web site: Amazon.com: John Barnes: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. amazon.com. 2017-09-01. 2016-04-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20160426081700/http://www.amazon.com/John-Barnes/e/B000AQ3DTO/ref=sr_tc_ep?qid=1319902798. live.
Web site: Blogger: User Profile: John Barnes. blogger.com. 2011-10-29. 2015-08-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20150804011418/https://www.blogger.com/profile/11527317811849077589. live.
Web site: Amazon.com Customer Discussions > John Barnes forum Has Daybreak 3 - "The Last President" been cancelled???. Amazon. 2017-09-01. 2016-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305041302/http://www.amazon.com/gp/forum/cd/discussion.html/ref=ntt_mus_ep_cd_tft_tp?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx2ITGLGFYOH2FL&cdThread=TxCQSDG9U7MUG. live.
Web site: Bibliography: Apocalypses and Apostrophes. Internet Speculative Fiction Database. 2014-07-20. 2018-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20181113030334/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?833890. live.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=uJyXcehjHCAC&dq=%22john+barnes%22+%22science+fiction%22&pg=PA152 Finity review, x, y, z, t: dimensions of science fiction, Damien Broderick, 2004, p. 152
Book: Barnes, John. Gaudeamus. Tor. 2014. 9780765311986. New York.
Web site: Approachably Reclusive. John Barnes. thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com. 20 April 2012. 23 April 2012. 12 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140312213516/http://thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2012/04/secret-project-revealed-at-last.html. live.
Web site: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early December . . Lois . Tilton . Lois Tilton . December 7, 2010 . January 6, 2015 . January 7, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150107222008/http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2010/12/lois-tilton-reviews-short-fiction-early-december/#enginfinity . live .
Web site: Book Review: Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan . Nigel . Seel . ScienceFiction.com . April 11, 2011 . January 6, 2015 . June 18, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180618052414/http://sciencefiction.com/2011/04/11/book-review-engineering-infinity-ed-jonathan-strahan/ . live .
Web site: Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan . Robert E. . Waters . Tangent . March 8, 2011 . January 6, 2015 . April 13, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170413081542/http://www.tangentonline.com/print--other-reviewsmenu-263/anthologies-reviewsmenu-107/1528-engineering-infinity-edited-by-jonathan-strahan . dead .
Web site: The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees. 28 April 2015. 9 December 2015. 25 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160125032644/http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-birds-and-the-bees-and-the-gasoline-trees/. live.