Barry B Longyear Books In Order

City of Baraboo

The Last Show on Earth finds its survival by taking to the stars and playing the worlds of the near galaxy, becoming the greatest show off Earth.

‘What Barry has done…
is to take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality.’

Spider Robinson

Elephant Song

The original Starshow, smashed, the survivors stranded on a world without an audience.

‘An immensely bittersweet book, every triumph bought with blood, every gain the result of sacrifice.’

Futura

‘What Barry has done…
is to take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality.’

Spider Robinson

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 politics and war, and they do so in their own special way.

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. The story of a man, incomplete in himself, taught to be a human by his sworn enemy, an alien being who leaves with the human its most important possession: its future.

Infinity Hold

The complete and unabridged Infinity Hold trilogy: Infinity Hold, Kill All The Lawyers, and Keep The Law. In a world of terrorists, murderers, and criminally insane, one man rises to become the world’s first police officer and the guardian of their most precious possession: The Law. Three full novels, the complete saga from before the landing to Bando Nicos’s murder trial. Kill All The Lawyers: First time in book form. Keep The Law: First publication!

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 Thomas Windom’s eyes a race preparing to deal with overpopulation in the only manner left.

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.’

Steven Brust, author of The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

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 by a hydraulic aholic robot, an army of mutants, a wizard who can t keep on his skin, and the luscious mechanical love of Henry’s life, Anne Droid. The one chance for humanity is subterranean race across the nuked out heartland of America to find a forgotten power that can save the world or destroy it.

The God Box

A less than honest merchant in the Iskandar market inherits a little box that will give him anything he needs, 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 doin his six month reserve call up duty for the Air Force is sent to negotiate for the future existence of a newly evolved species: humanity.

Enemy Mine / Another Orphan

ENEMY MINE The Nebula and Hugo Award winner that inspired the 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett, Jr. The story of a man, incomplete in himself, taught to be a human by his sworn enemy, an alien being who leaves with the human its most important possession: its future.

Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny Humankind’s early reach for the stars:

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 teacher lifts an entire world, and himself out of the dark. USE Force, a young man enlists to search for himself and instead finds his destiny.

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, merely good ones. Longyear is the kind of quality writer who sets up so complete a segment of life within a story, that all possibilities of a real occurrence come through. STARLOG

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 Testament and The Last Enemy, plus more.

Talma is the pat of choosing paths. The Enemy Papers is the saga of how humans and their enemies used Talma to end war.

‘…
this was one of those rare times when a story was so good that even I could see ‘Hugo’ written all over it.’ Isaac Asimov on Enemy Mine

Yesterday’s Tomorrow

At last, a meditation book that shows why and, more importantly, how recovery works written in no nonsense language by a ‘hard case’ who’s been there and been there, and been there.

Barry L. has been clean and sober for more than 14 years, but there was a time when his multiple trips through relapse, detox, and treatment made sobriety seem an impossibility. Now he’s written a meditation book especially for ‘hard cases’ like himself; those who struggle with the spiritual side of the program and have had a hard time staying sober. Here is blunt, bare knuckle writing that tells it like it is.

Know a few hard cases who just don’t seem to get the program? They’ll benefit from this book.

Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop I

About a year after my stories began being published, magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.

SFWW I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction. Barry B. Longyear