Steven Barnes

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Steven Emory Barnes (* 1. March 1952 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American science fiction - Fantasy - and mystery - writer . He writes screenplays, scripts for comics, animations and magazine articles.

biography

Barnes had a varied education, including postgraduate studies at Los Angeles High School. He continued his education at Pepperdine University , majoring in Communication Arts.

Barnes is married to Tananarive Due, also a writer. The couple live in Lost Angeles and run a blog together . You teach a course at UCLA called The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival & Black Horror . The course is now also held as a webinar . Barnes has a daughter from his first marriage and a son with Tananarive.

Barnes has been practicing various martial arts since 1969 . He wears a black belt in Kempō Karate and one in Judo . He is a sensei of Wu Ming Ta and a prospective teacher of the Filipino Eskrima in stick and knife fighting. He is also an advanced student of Jun Fan Kickboxing in the Bruce Lee method under Sensei Dan Inosanto . Barnes is a teacher of Wu style Taijiquan .

He studies self-defense pistol shooting, preferring the Weaver stance method. He has a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu , is learning Taekwondo and Aikido . Barnes is engaged in hatha yoga ; studies Pentjak Silat (an Indonesian fighting system) with Guru Stevan Plinck and trains in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga .

Career

Barnes has written several episodes of Outer Limits and Baywatch . His "The Time Machine" episode of The Outer Limits won an Emmy Award . He also wrote the episode "The Chosen" for Stargate SG-1 and "The Sum of All Parts" for Andromeda .

Barne's first science fiction publication was the 1979 novella The Locusts , which he wrote with Larry Niven and which was nominated for a Hugo Award . Barnes then worked with Niven on several other books, including two books with Niven and Jerry Pournelle . Barnes said he had a political argument with the two Conservative writers but enjoyed working with them. He called it "a tremendous learning opportunity". Barne's alternative history novel, Lion's Blood , won the 2003 Endeavor Award . His 2004 Star Wars - Tie-in Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Biodroiden ( The Cestus Deception ) was a New York Times -Bestseller.

Together with his wife Tananarive Due and actor Blair Underwood , Barnes won the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel

bibliography

Series and cycles

Dream Park Universe
Dream Park (with Larry Niven )
  • 1 Dream Park (1981)
    • German: Traumpark. Translated by Bodo Baumann. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22072, 1984, ISBN 3-404-22072-2 .
  • 2 The Barsoom Project (1989)
  • 3 The Voodoo Game (1991; also: The California Voodoo Game , 1992)
    • English: The Voodoo Game. Translated by Uwe Anton. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special # 24165, 1993, ISBN 3-404-24165-7 .
  • 4 The Moon Maze Game (2011)
  • The Descent of Anansi (1982)
    • English: The landing of the Anansi. Translated by Bodo Baumann. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special # 24079, 1986, ISBN 3-404-24079-0 .
  • Lady or the Tiger (2019, in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed.): Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers )
Aubrey Knight
  • 1 Streetlethal (1983)
  • 2 Gorgon Child (1989)
  • 3 Firedance (1994)
Heorot (with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle )
  • 1 The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
    • English: The hero of Avalon. Translated by Heiko Langhans. Bastei-Lübbe SF Adventure # 23089, 1989, ISBN 3-404-23089-2 . Also called: Heorot's Legacy. Translated by Heiko Langhans. Bastei-Lübbe SF Special # 24306, 2002, ISBN 3-404-24306-4 .
  • 2 The Dragons of Heorot (1995; also: Beowulf's Children )
    • German: Beowulf's children. Translated by Axel Merz. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 24223, 1997, ISBN 3-404-24223-8 .
  • 3 Starborn & Godsons (2020)
  • The Secret of Black Ship Island (2012)
Bilalistan (novels)
  • 1 Lion's Blood (2002)
  • 2 Zulu Heart (2003)

Novels

  • The Kundalini Equation (1986)
  • Far Beyond the Stars ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series , 1998)
  • Achilles' Choice (1991; with Larry Niven)
    • German: The choice of Achilles. Translated by Thomasschichtel. Bastei-Lübbe SF Special # 24157, 1992, ISBN 3-404-24157-6 .
  • Blood Brothers (1996)
  • Iron Shadows (1998)
  • Saturn's Race (2000; with Larry Niven)
  • Charisma (2002)
  • The Cestus Deception ( Star Wars: Clone Wars series , 2004)
    • English: Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Biodroids. Translated by Andreas Helweg. Blanvalet, 2004, ISBN 3-442-36125-7 .
  • The Hive ( Star Wars: Clone Wars series , 2004)
  • Great Sky Woman (2006)
  • Shadow Valley (2009)
  • Assassin: The Invisible Imam ( Assassin's Creed , 2010, in: Steven Barnes: Assassin and Other Stories )
  • Devil's Wake (2012; with Tananarive Due)
  • Domino Falls (2013; with Tananarive Due)
  • The Seascape Tattoo (2016; with Larry Niven)
  • Twelve Days (2017)

Collections

  • Assassin and Other Stories (2010)

Short stories

1974:

  • Moonglow (1974, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters )

1978:

  • Trick or Treat (in: Space and Time # 48, July 1978 )

1979:

  • The Locusts (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, June 1979 ; with Larry Niven)
    • German: The step back. In: Stories from the spaceport bar and other narratives. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Adventure # 23075, 1988, ISBN 3-404-23075-2 .

1980:

  • Retrospective (in: Jim Baen (as James Patrick Baen) (Ed.): Destinies, Summer 1980 ; with Larry Niven)
  • Endurance Vile (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1980 )

1981:

  • "... but fear itself" ( Magic Goes Away series , 1981, in: Larry Niven (Ed.): The Magic May Return )

1987:

  • Yelloweye ( Friends of the Horseclans series , 1987, in: Robert Adams and Pamela Crippen Adams (Eds.): Friends of the Horseclans )

1989:

  • Killsister ( Friends of the Horseclans series , 1989, in: Robert Adams and Pamela Crippen Adams (Eds.): Friends of the Horseclans II )

1992:

  • Dream Park: The Voodoo Game: Nakagawa's Law (in: Far Point # 2, January-February 1992 ; with Larry Niven)

1995:

1999:

  • The Music Between the Notes (1999, in: Marco Palmieri (Ed.): The Lives of Dax )

2000:

  • The Woman in the Wall (2000, in: Sheree R. Thomas (Ed.): Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora )

2003:

2004:

  • Danger Word (2004, in: Brandon Massey (Ed.): Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers ; with Tananarive Due)

2008:

  • Trickster (2008, in: Gary Phillips and Christopher Chambers (Eds.): The Darker Mask ; with Tananarive Due)

2010:

  • Father Steel (2010, in: Steven Barnes: Assassin and Other Stories )

2016:

  • Fifty Shades of Grays (2016, in: Lightspeed: People of Colo (u) r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue )

2017:

  • Mozart on the Kalahari (2017, in: Ed Finn, Joey Eschrich and Juliet Ulman (Eds.): Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures )

2018:

  • Danakil ( Cellarius Series , 2018, in: Whose Future Is It? )

2019:

  • The Last Adventure of Jack Laff: The Dayveil Gambit (2019, in: Cat Rambo (Ed.): If This Goes On )
  • Come Home to Atropos (2019, in: Nisi Shawl (Ed.): New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color )

Non-fiction

  • Star Wars Saved My Life: Be the HERO in the adventure of your lifetime! (2015)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Steven Barnes: White & Black . In: Locus (magazine) . tape 50 , no. 3 [506] , March 2003, p. 84–86 (English, excerpt from the interview in Locusmag Archive [accessed November 20, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b Interview on strangehorizons ( Memento from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed November 20, 2019)
  3. ^ The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival & Black Horror. (accessed November 20, 2019)
  4. ↑ Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes on jamming with Stephen King and the enduring power of genre writing , Consequence of Sound, March 29, 2019 (accessed November 20, 2019)
  5. ↑ Interview (accessed November 20, 2019)
  6. ↑ N'neka Hite: 'Bees' at the NAACP Image Awards. In: Variety. February 12, 2009, (accessed November 20, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Barnes, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnes, Steven Emory (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles