John Barnes Books In Order
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Orbital Resonance | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kaleidoscope Century | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Candle | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Century Next Door | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sky So Big and Black | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Daybreak Books
Directive 51 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Daybreak Zero | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Last President | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Giraut Books
A Million Open Doors | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Earth Made of Glass | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Merchants of Souls | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Armies of Memory | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Jak Jinnaka Books
The Duke of Uranium | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Princess of the Aerie | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Hall of the Martian King | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Timeline Wars Books
Patton's Spaceship | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Washington's Dirigible | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Caesar's Bicycle | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Timeraider Books
Wartide | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Battlecry | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Union Fires | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sin of Origin | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mother of Storms | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
One for the Morning Glory | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Encounter with Tiber | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Payback City | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Finity | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Return | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gaudeamus | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Raise the Gipper! | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Collections
Apostrophes & Apocalypses | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rod Rapid and His Electric Chair | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
My Advice to the Civilized | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Between Shepherds and Kings | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Upon Their Backs, to Bite 'em | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Poga | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Every Hole is Outlined | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lost Princess Man | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Things Undone | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Quiet Guy It Always Was | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Teen & Young Adult Books
Tales of the Madman Underground | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Losers in Space | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
John Barnes is an American published author who specializes in science fiction.
The author was born in 1957. His hometown is located in Bowling Green, Ohio. He writes stories that delve into various questions involving the moral responsibility of the individual within a greater social context. Many of his plots have social criticism woven in throughout them. His Thousand Cultures series features four novels that ask questions about what globalization’s effects will be on otherwise isolated societies.
His novels have been intended for adult readers but two of his stories have been seen as being appropriate for young adult audiences– The Sky So Big and Black as well as The Duke of Uranium. He has also been a contributor to the website Internet Evolution.
In addition to writing, he has worked in a variety of fields and positions. These include business statistics, systems analysis, sentiment analysis, software reliability theory, statistical semiotics, and formal specification.
Barnes has a doctorate in theater. He has attended Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Montana where he graduated with an M.A. degree, and received a PhD in theater from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught in Colorado for many years, and continues to reside there. He has been married three times, divorced twice.
John Barnes is the creator and the author of such series such as the Century Next Door series, the Timeraider series, the Million Open Doors series, the Timeline Wars series, the Jak Jinnaka series, and the Daybreak series. He has also penned several stand alone novels.
Orbital Resonance is the first book in the Century Next Door series of fictional novels by John Barnes. If you enjoy a good science fiction book, check out this first in the series!
Melpomene Murray has fairly average things that she is concerned with in her life. These include hanging out with her friends, getting her homework done, going on dates. She also happens to live on an asteroid colony known as The Flying Dutchman.
The colony is far away from the planet Earth, thousands of miles away. Much too far to bear witness to the pollution, war, and disease that are ravaging the Earth. She is the last hope for humanity, along with all of her other classmates who were born in space.
Thinking about that fact in depth, Mel is starting to really see how great the responsibility that they all carry on their shoulders is. She was brought up in this world, trained from her birth by teachers and parents to take humanity into the future.
They all have certain things that they expect from her. But what if Mel has some plans of her own that don’t include them at all? What then? Mel is facing her future, and she knows that if she doesn’t take things into her own hands and do something, she might lose control of her fate forever.
What will she do, and can she stand the consequences? Read this science fiction story from John Barnes to find out!
Kaleidoscope Century is the second book in the Century Next Door series of fictional novels by John Barnes. If you liked the first science fiction story in this series, be sure to pick up a second copy and see what you think!
Joshua Ali Quare is the main character in this story, and he’s someone who lives life to the fullest. Decades earlier, he came down with a virus that makes sure that for every fifteen years that he manages to live, he gets another ten along with it.
After every coma that he goes into, induced by the virus, Josh wakes up without a working memory anymore. On top of that, he also gets a decade younger. It doesn’t sound like the worst deal in the world, and Josh doesn’t have a choice so he just lives with it.
But this time things might be different. It’s 2109 and there is someone out there looking for him. He’s got to settle things and put the record straight to ensure his safety and go through nearly a hundred years of future history in the process. Can he put everything back to normal and get back to his life as usual? Read this book to find out!
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