John Barnes, Author . Viking $18.99 (532p) ISBN 978-0-670-06081-8
High school senior Karl Shoemaker just wants to be normal. Since fourth grade, Karl has been unable to escape the stigma of the Madman Underground, a school therapy group for screwed-up kids (he earned the nickname “Psycho” after cutting
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John Barnes, Author . Tor $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0329-5
Barnes (The Sky So Big and Black
) has created a gonzo piece of metafiction that cleverly blurs the line between reality and fantasy. Private detective Travis Bismark turns up on the doorstep of his old friend, the science fiction writer John Barnes,
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John Barnes, Author . Tor $25.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0330-1
Splendidly wrapping up the far-future cloak-and-psychological-dagger series that began with A
Million Open Doors
(1992), this last grand adventure of master spy and latter-day troubadour Giraut Leones covertly steers the Thousand Cultures of near-im
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John Barnes, Author . Tor $24.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0303-5
Barnes (Candle) is up to his old tricks in creating a sharp novel that is not about who or what readers will think it is and that comes with a perfect, unexpected ending. Teri-Mel, a human growing up on the harsh, wild frontier of Mars, is in...
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John Barnes, Author . Aspect $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-61083-4
To the delight of sci-fi fans, the scoundrel-hero Jak Jinnaka returns for another tale of high adventure, spying, double-crossing and intergalactic mischief. Just when Jak thinks that looking out for his boss's teenaged relative and trying to...
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John Barnes, Author Tor Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86147-6
In the dozen stories presented here, Barnes (Mother of Storms; A Million Open Doors) deals with social mechanization, nonhuman intelligence, extraterrestrials, the biology and politics of the far future and diverse extrapolations of modern science--t
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John Barnes, Author Tor Books $19.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-312-85206-1
Thirteen-year-old Melpomene Murray lives on the Flying Dutchman , an asteroid set into an Earth-Mars orbit, for use in shipping resources back to a devastated Earth. Its Planners devised a scheme for psychological conditioning in order to keep the...
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John Barnes, Author Tor Books $19.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-312-85210-8
In Barnes's ( Orbital Resonance ) futuristic universe, the Thousand Cultures are planets that have developed in virtual isolation. The world of Nou Occitan is based on a romanticized medieval Europe: duels are fought, artistic endeavors are...
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John Barnes, Author Tor Books $22.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-85560-4
This futuristic disaster novel by the author of A Million Open Doors opens in the year 2028, when a preemptive missile strike releases billions of tons of methane trapped in the ocean floor. The resultant atmospheric heat spawns massive supernatural
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John Barnes, Author Tor Books $21.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-312-85561-1
A stunning evocation of humanity's violent downward slide, Barnes's fourth SF novel is set on Mars during the early part of the 22nd century, in a universe chimerically similar to that of his first, Orbital Resonance. The novel consists primarily of
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John Barnes, Author Tor Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86106-3
An original SF talent has now turned to humorous fantasy. In the Kingdom of Underhill, the toddler Prince Amatus sips the Wine of the Gods--and his left side vanishes. The King orders the execution of the four royal attendants deemed responsible for
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John Barnes, read by Susan Ericksen, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 18 CDs, 22 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-5814-6
"Daybreak"—an assault against modern civilization conceived and developed through the Internet—has begun. As plastics and other petroleum products deteriorate and bring the world crashing down, Heather O'Grainne, of the U.S. Office of Future Threat...
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John Barnes, Author Tor Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-89077-3
In a multitextured narrative that explores issues of free will and of the virtues and dangers of forced utopia, Barnes (Finity) portrays a world in which humanity is linked like a computer network under the ""One True."" The victor of the...
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John Barnes, Author Nelsonword Publishing Group $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86118-6
Have you ever had a clear memory of an event that was directly at odds with what someone else remembers? Have you and your spouse ever argued over where you first met or when you first kissed? In this latest novel by the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated...
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John Barnes, Author . Tor $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-89076-6
Mysterious forces threaten humanity in this relatively weak third installment in Barnes's Thousand Cultures series (after 1998's Earth Made of Glass). Once again, composer Giraut Leones, secret agent for the intergalactic Office of Special...
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John Barnes, Author Congdon & Weed $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-86553-185-7
Barnes's engaging debut is one of the first novels in the new Isaac Asimov Presents series published by Congdon & Weed with the cooperation of Davis Publications. The Orbital Republics may be the dominant power in the solar system but political and...
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John Barnes. Viking, $18.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-06156-3
Printz Honor author Barnes (Tales of the Madman Underground) doesn’t take any shortcuts in this painstakingly constructed SF novel, a sort of amped-up Breakfast Club set in a celebrity-obsessed future.
Susan Tervaille, the 16-year-old daughter of...
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