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Authors | John Barnes

John Barnes (born 1957) is a prolific science fiction author, whose stories often explore questions of individual moral responsibility within a larger social context. Social criticism is woven throughout his riveting plots. The three novels in his Million Open Doors series pose serious questions about the effects of globalization on isolated societies. Barnes lives in Colorado and works in the field of semiotics.

Things Undone Full Story From: With two contracts last spring, both successful, Year of Grace 2014 had already been lucrative by early December; better still, with just over three months left in the year, we had yet another contract.

An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away Full Story From: Thorby had kept up his resistance training, but he'd been on Boreas for most of a year so he'd worried about agravitic muscular dystrophy.

Every Hole is Outlined Full Story From: The ship was at least fourteen thousand years old in slowtime and more than two thousand in eintime, but there were holes in its records and the oldest ones were in no-longer-accessible formats, so the ship estimated that it was more like eighteen thousand slowtime, three and a half thousand eintime. It had borne many names. Currently it was 9743, a name that translated easily for Approach Control no matter where the ship went in human space.

Poga Full Story From: Her father always called her "plain old goddam Amy."