Barry B. Longyear
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Barry B. Longyear (born May 12, 1942) is an award-winning US science fiction author and screenwriter who resides in New Sharon, Maine.
He is best known for the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella "Enemy Mine", which was subsequently made into an identically titled movie and a novelization in collaboration with David Gerrold. The story tells of an encounter between a human and an alien soldier, whose races are in a state of war. They are marooned together in space and have to come to grips with the universal problem of facing and accepting xenophobia.
This story in part helped Longyear to win the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer. He is the only writer to win the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Campbell in the same year. (Contrast the other SF "triple crown" winner: William Gibson with the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award in 1984.)
He also wrote the "Circus World" series (among his first published works), several stand-alone novels and numerous short stories, and two...
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