Books by Steven Barnes and Complete Book Reviews
Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due. S&S/Atria, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1702-3
The plot thickens in this engrossing continuation of the postapocalyptic Devil’s Wake. Having outrun zombie-like “freaks” and mercenary pirates, a ragtag “family” of survivors makes it to Domino Falls, the California town that is home to New Age...
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. Baen, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2448-9
Fans of the hard sci-fi Heorot series from Niven, Barnes, and the late Pournelle (1933–2017) are likely to feel that the 25-year wait for this final installment (after Beowolf’s Children) was worth it. Mostly complete by the time of Pournelle’s...
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Steven Barnes, Charles Johnson, and Bryan Christopher Moss. Megascope, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4447-1
Barnes (Lion’s Blood) and Johnson (Middle Passage) team up with artist Moss (The Experiment Known as Rose Marie Hernandez Willamson) for a story collection with cosmic ambitions hampered by some earthly flaws. Eight spiritual pilgrims, called to the
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Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Marco Finnegan. Megascope, $24.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4197-5155-4
This timely horror fantasy written by Due (The Living Blood) and Barnes (Lion’s Blood) and drawn by Finnegan (the Nick Travers graphic novel series) unfurls a tale of survival and sacrifice set in an unassuming Detroit apartment building. After the...
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Larry Niven and Steven Barnes. Tor, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2666-9
Niven and Barnes revive their long-running Dream Park series (after 1992's The California Voodoo Game), set in a future when live action role-playing is a reality TV sensation. The televised test run of the Moon's new gaming park is derailed when...
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Larry Niven and Steven Barnes. Tor, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7873-6
Niven and Barnes team up to deliver a trite epic fantasy with a few redeeming qualities. Neoloth-Pteor, the old and jaded wizard of Quillia, is secretly in love with Princess Tahlia. When the princess is kidnapped at sea by unknown nefarious sources
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Steven Barnes, Author . Del Rey $26 (254p) ISBN 978-0-345-45903-9
Readers unfamiliar with 2006's Great Sky Woman
will struggle a bit with the slow opening of this stand-alone sequel, a fantasy set in Africa around 28,000 B.C., but those who stay the course will find it worth the effort. T'Cori is a...
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Steven Barnes. Tor, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7597-1
An Indian mystic turns an autistic boy into a psychic weapon in this disappointing novel, Barnes’s first solo publication since 2009’s Shadow Valley. A message that foretells the deaths of prominent public leaders and criminals, dubbed the “Dead...
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Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due. S&S/Atria, $15 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1700-9
Barnes and Due (South by Southeast) retread a lot of familiar ground in this fast-paced but predictable homage to zombie film and fiction. An unusual confluence of events—the consumption of yahanna mushrooms and inoculation against the Amsterdam flu—
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Steven Barnes, Author . Warner $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-52668-5
"If you would not fear the lion, you must be a lion yourself," notes an old Swahili proverb, and it's that fearlessness that gives Barnes's moving epic its strength and power. What if the captives on those long ago slave ships had...
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Steven Barnes, Author . Tor $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87004-1
The true battleground in the fight between good and evil is the human soul, and no one is better at describing those internal battles than Barnes. While this latest stand-alone thriller, an eerie tale of good intentions gone bad, is the clear...
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Steven Barnes, Author . Warner Aspect $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-53122-1
In this ambitious and absorbing sequel to Barnes's well-received alternate history, Lion's Blood
(2002), the young Ethiopian nobleman and landholder Kai is now married and a father in Bilalistan (what we know as the southern United States).
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Steven Barnes, Author . Del Rey/Lucas Books $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-45897-1
Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi strides—and soars and plots and duels—again in this stirring new addition to the Star Wars saga. Hugo nominee Barnes (Zulu Heart
) picks Kenobi up in middle age during the Clone Wars between the good-guy...
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Steven Barnes, Author . Random/One World $24.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-345-45900-8
Hugo Award–nominee Barnes embellishes his 20th novel with folklore, spiritualism and impressive atmospheric detail. In prehistory, the Ibandi people thrive beneath the immense shadows of Great Sky Mountain—Mount Kilimanjaro. Two youths,...
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Steven Barnes, Author Tor Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85094-4
Here Barnes continues (but does not complete) the story of Aubry Knight begun in Streetlethal and Gorgon Child . Knight, a street-fighter and hired killer turned social activist is blessed with superhuman strength, agility and endurance. With the...
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Steven Barnes, Author Tor Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-85708-0
Pounding on the heels of Blood Brothers, Barnes's 1996 fictionalized position statement on American racism, this non-stop erotic thriller seems tailored for the big screen, hormone-zapped adolescents and earsplitting wraparound sound. Cat Juvell,...
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Steven Barnes, Author Tor Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85707-3
Better known for his science fiction, including collaborations with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Barnes (Firedance) here turns to dark fantasy with a story of occultism and race relations that ranges from the days of slavery to the present....
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