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John Barnes (born 1957) is an American science fiction author. His stories generally focus on moral responsibility and social criticism within social contexts. The four novels in his Thousand Cultures series pose serious questions about the effects of globalization on isolated societies. Barnes holds a doctorate in theatre and for several years taught in Colorado, where he still lives.
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Barnes has been married twice, the second to author Kara Dalkey. In the second and third books of the Thousand Cultures series, the protagonist Giraut Leones endures difficult marital tensions. Barnes notes that it has been assumed that these reflect the author's own frustration with the disintegration of his second marriage, but Barnes answers this assumption in the acknowledgments for The Armies of Memory, the fourth book in the series: "This is improbable, at the least, since I don't seem to have the foresight to plan till the end of the week, and for Earth Made of Glass to have been about my second divorce would require about four years of foresight." Barnes points out that the novel was effectively finished in 1996 and first published in 1998, while the events that led to the divorce happened in 2000.
Century Next Door series
- Orbital Resonance (1991)
- Kaleidoscope Century (1995)
- Candle (2000)
- The Sky So Big and Black (2002)
Thousand Cultures series
- A Million Open Doors (1993)
- Earth Made of Glass (1999)
- The Merchants of Souls (2002)
- The Armies of Memory (2006)
Time Raider series
- Wartide (1992)
- Battle Cry (1992)
- Union Fires (1992)
Timeline Wars series
- Patton's Spaceship (1997)
- Washington's Dirigible (1997)
- Caesar's Bicycle (1997)
- Timeline Wars (1997) (omnibus volume)
Jak Jinnaka series
- Duke of Uranium (2002)
- A Princess of the Aerie (2003)
- In the Hall of the Martian King (2003)
Directive 51 series
- Directive 51 (2010)
- Daybreak Zero (2011)
- book 3 - unknown title / publish date
Other
- The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (1987)
- Sin of Origin (1988)
- Mother of Storms (1995)
- Encounter With Tiber, with Buzz Aldrin (1996)
- One For the Morning Glory (1996)
- Apostrophes and Apocalypses (1998) (collection)
- Finity (1999)
- The Return, with Buzz Aldrin (2001)
- Gaudeamus (2004)
- Payback City (2007) (thriller, written in 1997, self-published e-book)
- Tales of the Madman Underground (2009) (non-genre novel, a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book)
- Losers in Space (scheduled for 2011)
- Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1992) : Orbital Resonance
- Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1993) : A Million Open Doors
- Hugo Award Best Novel nominee (1995) : Mother of Storms
- Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1996) : Mother of Storms
- Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book (2010): Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973
Total Books: 178