Elephant Song [Import] [Paperback]

Barry B. Longyear (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Futura Publications; paperback / softback edition (1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708881629
• ISBN-13: 978-0708881620
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Hugo & Nebula winning author of Enemy Mine (made into a major motion picture by Fox)

BARRY B. LONGYEAR is the first writer to win the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer all in the same year. In addition to his acclaimed Enemy Mine Series, his works include the classic Sea of Glass and Infinity Hold series, SF & fantasy novels, recovery and writing instruction works, and numerous short stories.


Nominations and Awards*:

1979 (Nomination) John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.
1979 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.
1979 Hugo Award, best novella, "Enemy Mine."
1979 Nebula Award, best novella, "Enemy Mine."
1979 Locus Award, best novella, "Enemy Mine."

1979 (Nomination) Hugo Award, best novelette, "Homecoming."
1980 (Nomination), Hugo Award, best novelette, "Savage Planet."
1980 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novelette, "Savage Planet."
1980 (Nomination), AnLab Award, best novelette, "Savage Planet."
1981 (Nomination) Locus Award, Single Author Collection, Manifest Destiny.

1981 Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Maine at Farmington.

1982 (Nomination), AnLab Award, best short story, "Collector's Item."
1984 (Nomination) Prometheus Award, best novel, The Tomorrow Testament.

1990 (Finalist) Philip K. Dick Award, best novel, Infinity Hold.

1990 (Nomination) Prometheus Award, best novel, Infinity Hold.
1991 (Nomination) Prometheus Hall of Fame, Circus World.

1993 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novelette, "Chimaera."
1994 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novelette, "The Death Addict."

1999 (Nomination) Prometheus Hall of Fame, Circus World.

2002 (Nomination), Locus Award, best novella, "Silent Her."

2006 AnLab Award, best novella, "The Good Kill."
2007 AnLab Award, best novella, "Murder in Parliament Street."

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Elephant Song, August 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Elephant Song (Paperback)

"Elephant Song" is the sequel to "The City of Baraboo". It is darker and more thought provoking then it's predecessor. A new twist on S/F books dealing with people marooned on an unfarmilar planet. It's a story about a troupe of circus people who after years of battling against a unrelenting foe, Arnheim booby traps the ship to strand them off the beaten track. They are left with nothing but shuttles, a few animals and grim determination to conquer a planet.

Yet the thread of humor in Longyear's books still shows though. Since the people who are stranded are cirus people they have an unique way of dealing with this traditional plot.

Over all it's the story of the relationship and significance of the elephant to a cirus.

Longyear reminds me of Theodore Sturgeon in the way he deals more with the human relashionships then with what is considered more hardcore S/F.

This book is a S/F fan must don't miss it now that the publisher has finally reprinted it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story, January 11, 2011

By 

George McFarland - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Elephant Song (Paperback)

This is an excellent story. I've been waiting twenty years for Longyear's books to be reprinted so I was really excited to buy this book and the other ones in the series. For those of you who are simply interested in reading an amazing story I strongly recommend this book. For those of you who like your books to be in pristine condition be warned. After one month the covers on all the books I've purchased from Backinprint.com have curled back and now after 6 months the plastic coating on the covers is starting to peel off as well. Oh, and did I mention the typographically errors?