Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He has written novels, short fiction, screen plays for television, scripts for comic books, animation, newspaper copy, and magazine articles.

Career

Barnes wrote several episodes of ''The Outer Limits'' and '' Baywatch''. His " A Stitch In Time" episode of The Outer Limits won an

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. He also wrote the episode "Brief Candle" for '' Stargate SG-1'' and the '' Andromeda'' episode "The Sum of Its Parts". Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979

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"The Locusts", was written with Larry Niven, and was a

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/ref> Barnes subsequently collaborated with Niven on several other books, including two books with both Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Barnes said he clashed politically with the two conservative writers but enjoyed working with them, calling it "a tremendous learning opportunity". Barnes's alternate history novel ''

Lion's Blood ''Lion's Blood'' is a 2002 alternate history novel by American writer Steven Barnes. The book won the 2003 Endeavour Award. It is followed by the sequel ''Zulu Heart''. The novel presents an alternate world where an Islamic Africa is the ce ...

'' won the 2003 Endeavour Award. His 2004

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tie-in novel '' The Cestus Deception'' was a New York Times bestseller. Together with his wife, Tananarive Due, and actor Blair Underwood, Barnes won the 2009 NAACP Image Award for outstanding Literary Work - Fiction for ''In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel''.

Early life and education

Barnes, was born on March 1, 1952 in Los Angeles, California. He has had a varied education, including a secondary education at Los Angeles High School. He continued at Pepperdine University, majoring in Communication Arts.''Steven Barnes: White & Black''. Locus Magazine; vol/issue 50/3 062003. Pages 84-86.
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Personal life

Barnes is married to Tananarive Due, a writer.Interview: Steven Barnes
, by Greg Beatty. ''Strange Horizons'', July 29, 2002. Retrieved August 31, 2013 The couple live in Los Angeles and host a video blog together. They also taught a course together at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival & Black Horror" that experienced a surprise visit from '' Get Out'' director

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. The course is now available as a webinar. Barnes has a daughter from his first marriage and a son from his current marriage. Barnes is also an avid practitioner of martial and physical arts. He began studying in 1969. He is a

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(BKF style), and Kodokan Judo. He holds an instructor certificate in Wu Ming Ta, and has an instructor candidate ranking in Filipino Kali stick and knife fighting. He is an advanced student in

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method under Dan Inosanto), and is an instructor in Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan under

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. He is an intermediate student in self-defense pistol shooting (preferring the Turnipseed modified Weaver method). He holds a

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in Shorenji Jiu Jitsu, and intermediate rankings in Tae Kwon Do and Aikido. He completed the Yoga Works basic

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instructor program; is studying Pentjak Silat (an Indonesian fighting system) with Guru Stevan Plinck, and Ashtanga Yoga, an aerobic form of yoga.

Bibliography

* The Dream Park series: ** ''Dream Park'' (1981; with Larry Niven) ** ''The Barsoom Project'' (1989; with Larry Niven) ** ''The California Voodoo Game'' (1992; with Larry Niven) ** ''The Moon Maze Game'' (2011; with Larry Niven) * 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) ** '' Starborn and Godsons'' (2020; with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) * The Insh'Allah series: ** ''

'' (2002; winner of the 2003 Endeavour Award) ** ''

Zulu Heart ''Zulu Heart'' is a 2003 alternate history novel by Steven Barnes, a sequel to the 2002 book, ''Lion's Blood''. Plot ''Zulu Heart'' is set in an alternate world where an Islamic Africa became the dominant world power and Europe remained primitive ...

'' (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 Man" (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) (''

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'' novelization) ** '' The Lives of Dax'': "The Music Between the Notes" (1999) ** ''Saturn's Race'' (2000) (with Larry Niven) ** ''Charisma'' (2002) ** '' The Cestus Deception'' (2004) (''

'' novel set in the Clone Wars) ** ''Assassin and Other Stories'' (2010), a collection,

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** ''The Invisible Imam'', a novel included in ''Assassin and Other Stories'' (2010) ** ''Devil's Wake'' (2012; with Tananarive Due) ** ''Domino Falls'' (2013; with Tananarive Due) ** ''Star Wars Saved My Life: Be the HERO in the adventure of your lifetime!'' (2015), illustrated by Trey Jackson and Angelina Greenwood ** ''The Seascape Tattoo'' (2016; with Larry Niven) ** ''Twelve Days'' (2017) * Short stories ** "The Woman in the Wall" (2000; novelette) ** "Danikil", ''Whose Future Is It?'' (2018)"Steven Barnes" in ''Cellarius Stories, Volume 1'', ch. 10. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018, .

References

External links

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"Black Science Fiction and Fantasy"
with Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Sheree R. Thomas on NPR, '' News & Notes'', August 13, 2007 (audio and transcript)
Audio Interview - Steven Barnes on the Horace J. Digby Report

''Lightspeed'' magazine Interview with Steven Barnes
by Christian A. Coleman, in May 2017 (Issue 84)
''Apex Magazine'': Interview with Author Steven Barnes
by Andrea Johnson on May 16, 2019 {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnes, Steven 1952 births 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American novelists African-American novelists American male screenwriters American science fiction writers American male novelists American television writers Black speculative fiction authors Endeavour Award winners Living people American male television writers Pepperdine University alumni Afrofuturist writers 21st-century American male writers American comics writers African-American screenwriters 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American writers African-American male writers