Manifest Destiny [Mass Market Paperback]

Barry B. Longyear (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 1955

Manifest Destiny-Humankind's early reach for the stars:"The Jaren," five young backland aliens enlist to do war with the humans. "Enemy Mine," (the story that became the motion picture). "Savage Planet," a teacher lifts an entire world, and himself out of the dark. "USE Force," a young man enlists to search for himself and instead finds his destiny.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award winner, Barry Longyear is author of Enemy Mine, made into a major motion picture by Fox. Recent works include The Enemy Papers and Yesterday?s Tomorrow. Having completed training as a P.I., he has entered the world of mystery writing with The Hangman?s Son. He lives with his wife, Jean, in New Sharon, Maine. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Berkley; Uncorrected Proof edition (May 5, 1955)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425045307
• ISBN-13: 978-0425045305
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,002,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Top 5, November 13, 2000

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H.T. Van Fossen IV (Sacramento,Calif. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Manifest Destiny (Mass Market Paperback)

If you liked "Pulp Fiction" or Bradbury's "Illustrated Man", you'll love this book. Whilst "Enemy Mine" is an excellent story, the weaving of many short stories to give a timeline of what came before keeps me interested to this day. I read this book for the first time approximately twenty years ago and have had two copies "borrowed" from me since then. I came here to buy TWO more so I would be assured of having this excellent book around.

5.0 out of 5 stars Four Great Short Stories, June 23, 2011

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Lori A. Crockett (Petersburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Manifest Destiny (Paperback)

I enjoyed all of the short stories in this book, although my favorite was The Jaren. I was hooked immediately by the characters and their emotions. In all of these stories, "man's inhumanity to man" transcends men to include other species from other planets as I believe it would if we settled elsewhere. Prejudice, racism, and man's belief in his own superiority are the issues encased in four completely different stories about life on other planets. Barry Longyear makes each character easy to empathize with and care about. I loved these stories. I was so glad to find the original "before the movie" version of Enemy Mine in this collection and I loved the story as much as I had loved the movie.

4.0 out of 5 stars An Overlooked Collection, February 4, 2003

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Brian Comerford (Denver, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Manifest Destiny (Paperback)

Introduced to this volume in 1982 or so, I found myself enraptured by the eloquence of Longyear's story-telling. While "Enemy Mine" stood out as the obvious leader amongst 4 loosely connected short story themes, "The Jaren" still remained my favorite, becoming something for inclusive-worldview SF that _Dances With Wolves_ had become for compensatory Native American studies. (In fact, I've always considered that "The Jaren" had a greater cinematic appeal than E.M., what with the paratrooping exoskeletons and band-of-brothers alien tribal loyalty, and all--but that's only me.) I would rank the stories by the order which they appear in the book ("The Jaren", "Enemy Mine", "Savage Planet", "USE Force"), and frankly, the momentum is lost in the last story, which, to me, is the volume's greatest disappointment. Over the years I have re-read the stories many times, and, like other reviewers, I have loaned my copy out only to lose track of it until Amazon. For SF fans, this is a volume worthy of reading at least once; it's an overlooked collection. (And, despite my fondness for Wolfgang Peterson's films, I'll always consider the motion picture version of "Enemy Mine" so completely inferior to Longyear's story and atmosphere, it's almost painful.)