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About John Barnes
For readers who are wondering where to start with my work, the most common suggestions are Orbital Resonance, A Million Open Doors, Mother of Storms, Encounter with Tiber, or Tales of the Madman Underground. However, almost no one likes all five of those books--I write a wider range than most people read--so you might want to flip a few pages before buying. My most popular have been Directive 51, Mother of Storms, and the two collaborations with Buzz Aldrin. My 3 most popular series begin with A Million Open Doors, Directive 51, and Patton's Spaceship. Nearest my heart are probably One for the Morning Glory, Tales of the Madman Underground, and The Sky So Big and Black. And the most fun was had in writing Gaudeamus, Payback City, and Raise The Gipper!
I used to teach in the Communication and Theatre program at Western State College. I got my PhD at Pitt in the early 90s, masters degrees at U of Montana in the mid 80s, bachelors at Washington University in the 70s; worked for Middle South Services in New Orleans in the early 80s. For a few years I did paid blogging mostly about the math of marketing analysis at TheCMOSite and All Analytics. More recently, I covered advanced technology, especially space, stories in the Government section of Information Week.
If any of that is familiar to you, then yes, I am THAT John Barnes.
I have also become aware of at least 72 Johns Barneses I am not. Among the more interesting ones I am not:
1. the Jamaican-born British footballer who scored that dramatic goal against Brazil
2. the occasional Marvel bit role who is the grandson of Captain America's sidekick
3. the Vietnam-era Medal of Honor winner
4&5. the lead singer for the Platters (and neither he nor I is the lead singer for the Nightcrawlers)
6.the Australian rules footballer
7. the former Red Sox pitcher
8. the Tory MP
9. the expert on Ada programming
10&11. the Cleveland-area member of the Ohio House of Representatives (though we're almost the same age and both grew up in northern Ohio) who is also not the former member of the Indiana House that ran for state senate in 2012 (one of them is a Democrat, one a Republican, and I'm a Socialist)
12. the former president of Boise State University
13. the film score composer
14. the longtime editor of The LaTrobe Journal
15. the biographer of Eva Peron
16. the manager of Panther Racing (though he and I share a tendency to come in second)
17. the British diplomat (who is not the Tory MP above)
18. the conservative Catholic cultural commentator (now there's an alliterative job)
19. the authority on Dante
20. the mycologist
21. the author of Marketing Judo (though I have an acute interest in both subjects)
22. the travel writer
23. the author of Titmice of the British Isles (originally published as Greater and Lesser Tits of England and Ireland, a title which I envy)
24. the guy who does some form of massage healing, mind/body stuff that I don't really understand at all
25. the corp-comm guy for BP (though I've taught and consulted on corp-comm)
26. the film historian,
27. the Pittsburgh-area gay rights activist (though we used to get each others' mail)
28. the guy who skipped Missoula, Montana, leaving behind a pile of bad checks, just before I moved there
29. the policeman in Gunnison, Colorado, the smallest town I've ever lived in, though he busted some of my students and I taught some of his arrestees
30. the wildlife cinematographer who made Love and Death on the Veldt and shot some of the Disney True Life Adventures ("Hortense the Presybterian Wombat" and the like) or
31. that guy that Ma said was my father.
And despite perennial confusion by some science fiction fans and readers, I'm not Steve Barnes and he's not me, and we are definitely not related, though we enjoy seeing each other and occasionally corresponding (not often enough).
I used to think I was the only paid consulting statistical semiotician for business and industry in the world, but I now know four of them, and can find websites for about ten more. Statistical semiotics is about the ways in which the characteristics of a population of signs come to constitute signs themselves. It has applications in marketing, poll analysis, and annoying the literary theorists who want to keep semiotics all to themselves and spend their time studying individual signs and the processes around them in very deep detail. It also shouldn't be confused with computational semiotics, which was about how software could parse complex signs to communicate with humans and other software. Just to make it a bit more confusing, both statistical and computational semiotics are being gradually subsumed into natural language processing, which in turn seems to be being absorbed into data science. Someday all universities will just have a Department of Stuff and that's what everyone will major in.
Semiotics is pretty much what Louis Armstrong said about jazz, except jazz paid a lot better for him than semiotics does for me. If you're trying to place me in the semiosphere, I am a Peircean (the sign is three parts, ), a Lotmanian (art, culture, and mind are all populations of those tripartite signs) and a statistician (the mathematical structures and forms that can be found within those populations of signs are the source of meaning). Recently I've begun working on a certificate in Data Science for pretty much the same reason that the Scarecrow needed a diploma and the Lion needed a medal.
I have been married three times, and divorced twice, and I believe that's quite enough in both categories. I'm a hobby cook, sometime theatre artist, and still going through the motions after many years in martial arts.
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Blog postI posted this as a comment over at Daily Kos, where folks were talking about the confirmed identification of gravity waves from the merger of two infalling black holes. Then I decided I liked it enough that I wanted it to be here as well. Sorry for anyone who happens to be seeing it twice -- think of it as a sort of gravitational lensing, I guess.
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Blog postIt's that time of year again, and for the second year in a row there's only going to be one newsletter. Those who are already regular subscribers, look for it soon.
Those who are not (or whose email changed in the last year) drop me a note and ask to be added to the mailing list.
This particular newsletter will include brief personal news (where I've been for another year), brief publishing and business news (where to find my few publications in the past year and5 years ago Read more -
Blog postIf you've read this blog at all in the past few months you know that I'm working on a book called Singapore Math Figured Out for Parents, and I do almost all of the math tutoring for Tutoring Colorado, my wife's tutoring business. Lately, too, I've noticed my emotional investment in my life as a math tutor deepens with time.So here's some more about Singapore Math, math tutoring, and math instruction. This one noodles through some ideas that I'm pretty sure I need to put into the book, pos5 years ago Read more
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Blog postIf you just got here, this is one of about a week-long series of blog posts about Singapore Math and number sense, and how Singapore Math techniques can help kids through The Wall, that barricade of "this makes no sense" that most kids run into somewhere between long division and elementary algebra. Much of this material will be appearing later in my forthcoming book, Singapore Math Figured Out for Parents. The book draws on two roots: I've done a fair bit of science and technology jou6 years ago Read more
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Blog postLatecomers and accidental wanderers-in: This is one of a whole series of blog posts about Singapore Math, number sense, and how Singapore Math techniques, when properly used, build and develop number sense and ultimately gets math-blocked kids moving again. The series began with some description of what number sense is and a questionnaireto see how your number sense is; since then, we've been following a case studyof the mathematical adventures of a beginning fourth-grader named Forrest. I6 years ago Read more
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Blog postCharming book, by the way.
Like case studies in self help, psychoanalysis, business management, and so forth, this is a composite tale. In using Singapore Math methods to coach kids with math problems at Tutoring Colorado, I've seen several kids who shared a problem or two with Forrest, and no kids who were exactly like him. When I realized that this particular tutoring tale was getting very long for a blog post, I decided to break it up, so, here's part one. Part two, probably6 years ago Read more -
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Blog postI'm going to be attending Bubonicon, the New Mexico/Albuquerque area sf convention, this weekend. I haven't been much of a con-goer for quite a long time -- my last few were the Las Vegas SFRA in 2005, the Anaheim (2006) and Denver (2008) Worldcons (the latter somewhat under duress, as a fill-in for my agent at the time) and a very brief one afternoon visit to MileHi Con last fall. Prior to that I was fairly regular about going to the damned things but didn't like most of the ones I attended af6 years ago Read more
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Blog postThe last episode of "Silence Like Diamonds" is now up, and those of you who have been waiting to read it all at once should get busy, because after this piece, I shall have no caution at all about spoilers. Yip and everybody are going to find out what it was all about, you're going to find out what happens to everyone, and in short, after this ep, the story's over and it's time to go find another story.It is a truth universally acknowledged among writers that endings are hard. Lawrence6 years ago Read more
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Blog postMuch noise is being made about the Internet of Things these days by the sort of people who make noise about such things, and I suppose all that noise is good for something. Perhaps it is good for keeping such people employed so that they don't end up at Starbucks screwing up my coffee order.* For those of you who missed out on it, the idea (of the Internet of Things, not my coffee order) is that eventually we will be surrounded by devices that have sensors, memory, intercommunication, and6 years ago Read more
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Blog postFirst of all, because it matters most of all, I'm gratified that I'm getting email from many of you, little flares of discussion on Twitter, and informed multisided argument over at Light Reading about "Silence Like Diamonds". That little adventure novelet is honestly drawing more attention and creating more conversation than some of my novels. (Possibly it even deserves to.) Thanks, guys, not only could I not have done it without you, by definition, if there hadn't been a you, I would6 years ago Read more
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Blog postThe estimable Jerry Green, a loyal fan if ever there was one, recently read Finity, and his response, via Twitter, was:Jerry Green @jerrygreener 3h3 hours ago
@JohnBarnesSF why did you mention Finity in your blog, i bought it in Hardback! amazed i kept reading you, what were you trying there?Ah, I thought. Another fan I will have to point toward my blog post about Edmunds. Now where is the most recent version of that?
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Blog postPhil Plait, who signs himself "Bad Astronomer" over at Slate, and lives in my part of the planet, is usually a marvel of rational, sane entertainment and good science writing. But even Homer nods, and this particular Slate post is freaking silly.
I tried three times to post this comment, but alas, Slate is playing its "an error occurred, try again," game. An error occurred, mistakes were made, unfortunate events have happened recently, the passive voice was used,6 years ago Read more -
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Blog postThere are a good solid hundred things that make alternate histories fascinating to me, but there are 3 reasons why, every week at my local bookstore, I sadly return most alt histories to the shelf, unbought and never to be read:a. a huge fraction are about what are viewed as the critical moments in making the modern US: the Civil War and World War II.b. an equally huge fraction are a6 years ago Read more
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Blog postExplaining first things first: I'm blogging on Tuesdays and Fridays, lately, because my serial novelet, "Silence Like Diamonds," is running at Light Reading, a tech-news oriented website covering advanced communications systems. You can browse back through this blog or just hop over there and start reading, but in any case, Episode 5 (out of 10) is now up and running, or will be by the time you read this, so if you haven't started yet, you have a bit of catching up to do.One idea6 years ago Read more
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Blog postThere is a sentence in "Silence Like Diamonds" -- oh,that? How nice of you to ask. The fourth episode is up now, over at Light Reading,and if this is your first time here you can find my explanation here and Light Reading's explanation there. If you really just wanted to read a good story, go read! This will wait!(Smiling and waving as a few folks leave the room)RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, IT'S ABOUT TO BE MATH IN HERE!(crouching behind podium until pandemonium subsides, addressing6 years ago Read more
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Blog postSo once again I'm flogging my serialized novelet over in Light Reading, an I-hope-fun bit of light summer adventure fiction, set in the near future. And since there's another episode up -- Episode 3, "Principle One" -- go ahead, scoot on over and read that! -- I thought I'd talk about something that's already been in the story in Episodes 1 and 2, since Mitch has made dire threats about what he will do if I blog spoilers for my own story. (I won't, Mitch. Really, I won't. Could y6 years ago Read more
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Blog postSome of you have started reading the serial novelet by me over at Light Reading, "Silence Like Diamonds." Episode 1 came out last Friday; as I write this, Episode 2is a few hours from being officially live, and that link should already be working for anyone who likes that "advanced peek" feeling.
While the serial lasts, I'm going to try to say something around the time each episode comes out.
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Blog postThis'll teach me to do anything interesting, ever. Literally the day after posting the first action-heavy scene in Father Lucifer, chaos of an almost entirely good kind (CAEGK, which sounds like a noise a cat makes bringing up a hairball) erupted into my life. This is rather like what some other writers refer to as a Sekrit Project, which is probably a reference to something or other that I missed along the way. Anyway, can't talk about it yet, will be great if it happens, and9 years ago Read more
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Night was rushing across the sky, swarming over the last glints of sun that poked out between the mountains, with a chill coming on. Stacy pressed close to me and I put my arm around her. That was nice. "Here's the thing," she said. "I had this idea that I could get away from my idiot parents and steps, once and for all, if I could just make one good score. You know how good that can sound." "9 years ago Read more -
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Chapter 3The Tree Trunk Grill was not some diner they fixed up to be all nostalgic and shit. It was your basic college dump, with a worn out counter, low enough to have regular chairs at it, and booths around the outside that were about half naugahyde and half duct tape. "Tiny Tim" Brady, the old fat guy that ran it, was this big‑ass sports fan. Also a very enthusiastic one. But only for the sports and9 years ago Read more -
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§Gayle arrived looking terrified and excited, like anyone starting a job they have big hopes for and really need. I introduced her to Breit. He stared a hole in her shirt while he emphasized that everything on the menu was to be called only by the godawful obscene name he'd given it. Gayle had warned us that she'd have to learn everything, and she did. Megan put her through Cash Register 101 (&q9 years ago Read more -
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§I knew Breit hated to be awakened before nine, so I phoned him at 8:30 from the lobby of the City‑County Building. The hawwnkks and brakkk‑k‑k‑s from his end could have been a walrus receiving the Heimlich maneuver."Detectives in Denver are unlicensed," I said. "Anyone can be one. Even an ex‑felon illiterate oaf like me. They were going to start licensing them a cou9 years ago Read more -
Blog postFather Lucifer
by John Barnes
this book is dedicated to the memory of James Crumley. I think I remember everything he ever said to me, and I hope that wouldn't disappoint him.
"I wouldn't touch him with a barge-pole myself," said Mallow. "There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over. "There is," said Father Brown dryly; "and that is the real difference between human charity and Christian charity.9 years ago Read more -
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Chapter 2Just when the calculus was getting exciting and they were about to prove to me that trig functions were infinitely differentiable, which I'd been worrying about since I was a little bastard, Breit came in. The top of his head was a slightly different shade of brick red because he'd been out in the sun. He looked way too fucking cheerful.Megan said, "Too big to be a space station, Luke," and I looked down for a second becau9 years ago Read more -
Blog postFront material: I claim copyright under US and international law. But for the moment, while this blog is up, feel free to download and copy as long as you don't change things or pass it off as someone else's work.
By way of preface: I'd wanted to do a hardboiled detective series about a contemporary young detective in Denver for a long time. For a variety of reasons, my agent didn't like the idea much, and didn't put it in front of editors, preferring to ask for yet one more re9 years ago Read more
The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "a master of the genre"
Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse and radical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatred for the "Big System" and their desire to take it down.
Now, seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the world are in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy modern civilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top government personnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement its emergency contingency program...Directive 51.
An attack by time-hopping terrorists turns Mark Strang’s life upside down, and the Pittsburgh art historian discovers his calling as a bodyguard for hire. Strap yourself in for a ride through alternate timelines in this action-packed series that combines sci-fi, time travel, alien invasion, and high-tech adventure.
Patton’s Spaceship: When he learns the aliens behind the terrorists who destroyed his old life are trying to take control of timelines and subject them to totalitarian rule, Mark Strang will journey to a not-too-distant past to stop them—and get revenge. But he lands in a timeline where America lost World War II. He can help the resistance with his knowledge of future technology, but is he permanently trapped in a Nazi-controlled past?
Washington’s Dirigible: With the inhuman Closers still threatening timelines, Strang joins forces with their enemies, the ATN. He and time agent Chrysamen ja N’wook travel to an alternate colonial America to locate a missing operative and find that the colonies are on friendly terms with England and George Washington reigns as Duke of Kentucky. But he has one real enemy here—himself.
Caesar’s Bicycle: On assignment in ancient Rome, Mark Strang discovers the Closers have infiltrated the timeline and Julius Caesar is under their influence. Even as the Closers rewrite history to tip the scales in their favor, Strang is reluctant to assassinate an important government figure. But as he delays, his life—and those of his companions—hang in the balance, and they face a gruesome demise.
Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almost everyone on Earth have in their minds a copy of One True, software that grants its hosts limited telepathy and instills a kind of general cooperation.
In his younger days, Currie hunted "comboys"--people who had unplugged from the global net in order to evade One True, and who hid in wilderness areas, surviving by raiding the outposts of civilization. Now Currie is called back into service to capture the last comboy still at large, a man who calls himself Lobo. With his high tech equipment, thoroughly plugged into the global net, Currie sets out to bring Lobo in.
Instead, Lobo captures Currie, and manages to deprogram him. Thrown back on the resources of his own intelligence, courage, and wisdom for the first time in twenty-five years, Currie finds himself in a battle of minds with his captor . . . with results that will change the lives of everyone on Earth.
In the best tradition of John W. Campbell and Robert A. Heinlein, Candle is a novel about individualism and society that will leave readers breathless, arguing, and demanding more.
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Joshua Ali Quare wakes in 2019 at the age of 140 in a strong youthful body with no memory of his past, to find he is at the center of a vast and deadly conspiracy. The only clues to his identity are the records he has left--messages from the man he once was...
As Quare journeys through his past, he discovers he has been a key figure in the history of a turbulent, violent century--soldier, criminal, assassin, spy. A century filled with killing plagues and warring cults, ruthless corporations and dying nations. A century where treachery is often the only way to survive.
Now someone is looking for him. Someone from his past. And Quare must learn the terrifying secret of his history before it unleashed devastating consequences for the future of the human race.
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In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.
A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of an emerging global consciousness.
Vast in scope, yet intimate in personal detail, Mother of Storms is a visionary fusion of cutting-edge cyberspace fiction and heart-stopping storytelling in the grand tradition, filled with passion, tragedy, and the triumph of the human spirit.
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There are a million different Earths across an infinite number of timelines—and every one of them is in peril.
Mark Strang became a bodyguard and private investigator when terrorists killed his family; now he spends his days protecting Pittsburgh’s helpless and abused. But while on a mission to save the life of a ten-year-old girl, Strang is inexplicably cast into an alternate reality, transported to a different time on another Earth, where America was defeated in the Second World War and now suffers under the brutal yoke of Nazi oppression. Joining up with the remnants of the Resistance in the Free Zone—and allied with such notable commanders as George Patton and John F. Kennedy—Strang is suddenly a marked man and the last hope in a desperate fight for freedom, not only on this world but on countless others. For a war unlike any other is raging across time and dimensions, threatening every possible Earth, including Strang’s own. And the enemy will not rest until the entire multiverse is in chains.
In his epic and action-packed science fiction saga the Timeline Wars, John Barnes takes alternate-history SF to new heights, ingeniously reinventing and reinvigorating a genre popularized by such acclaimed authors as Harry Turtledove while joining the stellar ranks of Robert Heinlein and Joe Haldeman.
But other forces are rising too—forces that like the new life better...
In a devastated, splintered, postapocalyptic United States, with technology thrown back to biplanes, black powder, and steam trains, a tiny band of visionaries struggles to re-create Constitutional government and civilization itself, as a new Dark Age takes shape around them.
Ostensibly a diplomat, really a spy in training, Jak Jinnaka has such a gift for getting into trouble that his fellow students have voted him “most likely to have a war named after him.” His latest offense against cultural sensitivity would have ended his career at his junior year—except that the Academy is thoroughly corrupt, Jak has powerful and wealthy friends, and there’s an easier way for the dean of students to get rid of him: Jak’s ex-girlfriend, Princess Shyf of Greenworld (one of hundreds of nations in a space station the size of the moon), sends a cry for help that will conveniently take Jak one hundred eighty-five million miles out of the dean’s hair. Just like that, Jak is off to save Shyf in the name of true love, the Aerie for the sake of liberty, and his own potential for a lucrative and undemanding government job. But Shyf has found a very unpleasant use for Jak, and now that she’s got him, she might not let him go.
At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control...but they need a pressure suits to survive outside, and it will be a century or more before the planet's fit for terrestrial life.
Terpsichore Murray is growing up on Mars. She wants to quit school and become, like her father, an ecoprospector. He has other ideas: he wants her to stay in school. He does want her along on his next long trip but only to conduct a group of younger kids from the highlands at Mars's equator back to school in Wells City.
What happens next will change Terpsichore, will change Mars, and will open the door to a new chapter in the history of intelligent beings in the solar system . . . all of them.
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John Barnes has reinvented alternate-history science fiction in his ingenious saga of the battle to save the multiverse from enslavement by an alien enemy who can transcend time and reality. In the second volume of his remarkable trilogy, the war moves to a new battlefield: a different colonial America still happily tied to the British crown, where miraculous machines prowl the skies.
There are a million different Earths across an infinite number of timelines—and every one of them is in peril.
Former Pittsburgh private investigator Mark Strang is now a fully trained and blooded Crux Ops special agent, dedicated to the fight against the alien Closers who are invading every Earth in every time. Now the eternal struggle is carrying Strang to a different 1775 Boston, home of astounding technologies, where the colonists remain fiercely loyal to their king across the ocean. Something is rotten in England, though, and Strang must ally himself with the well-respected commander George Washington, the Duke of Kentucky, to derail a terrifying Closer plot and put this world’s history back on its proper course. But the enemy has unleashed a secret weapon that could permanently shift the balance: an unstoppable agent of destruction . . . named Mark Strang.
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