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Barry Brookes Longyear
Birth at
12 May 1942
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He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He studied at Wayne University, worked in a factory, then opened his own publishing house. Since 1977 he has been a professional writer. The first NF-work is a short story "Tests" ("Asimov's Science Fiction", 1978). Many of Longier's stories are collected in the book "Obvious Fate" (1980). One of them, “My Enemy” (1979), won the awards “Hugo” and “Nebula”, and then turned into the film of the same name (1985), which deserved wide fame. (In 1983, the novel
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He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He studied at Wayne University, worked in a factory, then opened his own publishing house. Since 1977 he has been a professional writer. The first NF-work is a short story "Tests" ("Asimov's Science Fiction", 1978). Many of Longier's stories are collected in the book "Obvious Fate" (1980). One of them, “My Enemy” (1979), won the awards “Hugo” and “Nebula”, and then turned into the film of the same name (1985), which deserved wide fame. (In 1983, the novel “Testament of Tomorrow” was published – a continuation of “The Enemy”; according to critics, the novel was much weaker than the story.) The pinnacle of Longier’s work is the series “Circus”, consisting of an internal chronology of a collection of related novels “The City of Barabu” (1980), the novel “The Song of the Elephant” (1982) and another collection of short stories “The World of the Circus” (1981). This series tells about the adventures of the circus troupe beyond Earth, their colonization of the distant planet Mom and subsequent triumphant performance. In the late 80s, Longier published several books, of which the most notable - The Glass Sea (1987) - is a tough dystopia on the topic of overpopulation of the Earth with the addition of computer specifics.