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The Enemy Papers

Product Description: 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...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595348756 | Backinprint.Com, May 31, 2005, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: 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.

9781565048591 | White Wolf Pub, March 1, 1998, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "The Enemy Papers" contains a newly edited and expanded-by-the-author version of "Enemy Mine" and its two sequels, "The Last Enemy" and "The Tomorrow Testament", published together for the first time.

Enemy Mine

At the height of the war between the Dracon Empire and Earth, two military pilots--one human, one Drac--crash on a distant planet

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595309764 | Backinprint.Com, March 1, 2004, cover price $8.95

9780441206728 | Mti edition (Ace Books, November 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: At the height of the war between the Dracon Empire and Earth, two military pilots--one human, one Drac--crash on a distant planet

Infinity Hold

By the award-winning author of Enemy Mine. Infinity Hold. The story of an idea and of a murderer who becomes the first police officer in a world of murderers. "For those interested in science fiction, Barry Longyear is required reading." âPhiladephia Inquirer

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595248520 | Backinprint.Com, September 1, 2002, cover price $41.95

9780595092741 | Backinprint.Com, April 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: By the award-winning author of Enemy Mine.

9780445209527 | Popular Library, November 1, 1989, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Nicos Bando--an unrehabilitable twenty-seven-year-old convict serving time in the year 2115--finds his sentence 'commuted' and himself sent to a harsh exile on the planet Doldra

Science Fiction Writer's Workshop-I: An Introduction to Fiction Mechanics

Product Description: âAbout 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...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780893707552 | Borgo Pr, September 1, 1983, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: âAbout 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.

Manifest Destiny

Product Description: 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...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595221240 | Backinprint.Com, April 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Manifest Destiny-Humankind's early reach for the stars:"The Jaren," five young backland aliens enlist to do war with the humans.

9780425045305 | Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1980, cover price $2.25

The Homecoming

Product Description: 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.

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780802768636 | Walker & Co, September 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Earth's first inhabitants, the Nitolans, returning after an absence of seventy million years to reclaim the planet, hover overhead in two hundred spaceships, each with the power to destroy a planet

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9780595213092 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Inhabitants of Earth from seventy million years ago return to reclaim their planet.

It Came from Schenectady

Product Description: This title is just a front for a collection of 12 stories, several of which are among the finest written within Longyears time as a writer. Hardly any of the dozen end as one might expect, and yet theyre not possessed of twist endings, merely good ones...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780312942397 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of outstanding science fiction tales by the Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award winner includes 'Catch the Sun,' 'Adagio,' 'The House of If,' and 'The Portrait of Baron Negay'

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9780595201723 | Backinprint.Com, October 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This title is just a front for a collection of 12 stories, several of which are among the finest written within Longyears time as a writer.

9780445202337 | Reprint edition (Popular Library, May 1, 1986), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A collection of outstanding science fiction tales by the Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award winner includes 'Catch the Sun,' 'Adagio,' 'The House of If,' and 'The Portrait of Baron Negay'

Naked Came the Robot

Product Description: 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 cant keep on his skin, and the luscious mechanical love of Henrys life, Anne Droid...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595200689 | Backinprint.Com, October 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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.

9780445207554 | Questar, November 1, 1988, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Tomorrow Testament

Product Description: The wars across the planets had lasted long enough. There seemed to be no end to the shedding of bloodhuman blood, alien blood. Suspicion and hatred ran too deep between the superpowers, the United States of Earth and the Dracon Chamber...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595189663 | Iuniverse Inc, July 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The wars across the planets had lasted long enough.

9780425063194 | Berkley Pub Group, December 1, 1983, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: Major Joanne Nicole struggles to understand the workings of the minds of an alien race in order to stop a brutal war between the aliens and humans

Sea of Glass

Product Description: 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 Windoms eyes a race preparing to deal with overpopulation in the only manner left...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780312007805 | Bluejay, January 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In a near-future world caught in the grips of a population crisis, Thomas Windom, an 'illegal' child is taken from his parents and, with other 'outcasters,' is raised in a forced labor camp

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9780595189656 | Iuniverse Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

9780380700554 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 1988), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: In a near-future world caught in the grips of a population crisis, Thomas Windom, an 'illegal' child is taken from his parents and, with other 'outcasters,' is raised in a forced labor camp

Circus World

Product Description: 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...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595189670 | Iuniverse Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus.

9780425055199 | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, December 1, 1980), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Momus, a barren world settled by stranded circus performers and possessing a civilization based on showmanship, is selected by the Vortilian Council of Warlords for their newest military garrison

Saint Mary Blue

Product Description: "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...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780916595067 | Steeldragon Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "A barrel of laughs with a kick in the groin for a punch line.

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9780595138852 | Backinprint.Com, November 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: "A barrel of laughs with a kick in the groin for a punch line.

The God Box

Product Description: 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.

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595121151 | Iuniverse Inc, October 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.

9780451159243 | New Amer Library, March 1, 1989, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Korvas, a crooked rug dealer, inherits a thinking, feeling box whose plan requires Korvas's involvement and will either save the world of destroy it

City of Baraboo

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595121205 | Backinprint.Com, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.

9780425055380 | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, July 1, 1981), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: In 2142, the last of the great showmen, John J.

Elephant Song

Product Description: 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...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780595121182 | Backinprint.Com, September 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The original Starshow, smashed, the survivors stranded on a world without an audience.

9780425051672 | Berkley Pub Group, March 1, 1982, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: When their spaceship crashes on a desolate planet, the members of O'Hara's Greater Shows, a futuristic circus, struggle to keep themselves and their animals alive

Slag Like Me

Detective Matthew Sikes and his Newcomer partner, George Francisco, inquire into the disappearance of journalist Micky Cass, who had gone undercover as a Newcomer to expose a campaign of discrimination against the Tenctonese. Original.

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780671795146 | Pocket Books, July 1, 1994, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Detective Matthew Sikes and his Newcomer partner, George Francisco, inquire into the disappearance of journalist Micky Cass, who had gone undercover as a Newcomer to expose a campaign of discrimination against the Tenctonese

The Change

As he undergoes a startling metamorphosis that may mean his death, police detective George Francisco tries to stop a vicious killer from his past who has sworn a deadly revenge on George. Original.

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780671736026 | Mti edition (Pocket Books, March 1, 1994), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: As he undergoes a startling metamorphosis that may mean his death, police detective George Francisco tries to stop a vicious killer from his past who has sworn a deadly revenge on George

Amazing Stories/No. 9

By Marc Laidlaw, Barry B. Longyear and Don Webb

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9781560764595 | Wizards of the Coast, November 1, 1992, cover price $3.95

Enemy Mine/Another Orphan

Contains the stories of Will Davidge, an ordinary man trapped with a pregnant enemy alien, and Patrick Fallon, another ordinary man who somehow has become trapped in the plot of Moby Dick

By John Kessel and Barry B. Longyear

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9780812559637 | Tor Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Contains the stories of Will Davidge, an ordinary man trapped with a pregnant enemy alien, and Patrick Fallon, another ordinary man who somehow has become trapped in the plot of Moby Dick

Science Fiction Writer's Workshop 1: An Introduction to Fiction Mechanics

Product Description: "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...read more

By Barry B. Longyear

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9780913896181 | Owlswick Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: "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.

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