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Steven Barnes is an American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician.

Background

Barnes, was born on March 1, 1952 in Los Angeles, California.

Education

Pepperdine University.

Career

Barnes has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also written the episode "Brief Candle" for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode "The Sum of Its Parts". He has had a varied education, including a secondary education at Los Angeles High School.

He continued at Pepperdine University, majoring in Communication Arts.

He is a certified hypnotherapist, trained at the Transformative Arts Institute in San Anselmo, California. The Aubry Knight series:

Street Lethal (1983)

Gorgon Child (1989)

Firedance (1993)

The Heorot series:

The Legacy of Heorot (1987.

With Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)

Beowulf"s Children (1995. With Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)

The Insh"Allah series:

Zulu Heart (2003)

The "Ibandi" series:

Great Sky Woman (2006)

Shadow Valley (2009)

The Tennyson Hardwick Novels:

Casanegra (2007.

With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)

In the Night of the Heat (2008.

With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)

From Cape Town with Love (2010. With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)

South by Southeast (September 2012. With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)

Stand-alone novels, screenplays, and other works:

The Descent of Anansi (1982.

With Larry Niven)

"To See the Invisible Manitoba" (1986.

A television script adapting a short story by Robert Silverberg, for the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone)

The Kundalini Equation (1986)

Fusion (1987) (issues #1–5 only)

Achilles" Choice (1991) (with Larry Niven)

Blood Brothers (1996)

Iron Shadows (1997)

Far Beyond the Stars (1998) (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novelization)

The Lives of Dax: "The Music Between the Notes" (1999)

Saturn"s Race (2000) (with Larry Niven)

Charisma (2002)

The Cestus Deception (2004) (Star Wars novel set in the Clone Wars)

Assassin and Other Stories (2010), a collection, ISFiC Press

The Invisible Imam, a novel included in Assassin and Other Stories.

Achievements

  • Barnes"s first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette "The Locusts", was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee. Lion"s Blood (2002; winner of the 2003 Endeavour Award).

Works

All works