John Barnes

This is not your classic love story. "The End" is an ambitious and thought provoking tale set at the end of the world-filled with wars, earthquakes, flooding, and more. Shining light on some of life's most pertinent questions, this is an ambitious story of romance and adventure, with shocking events that will make you think about your personal journey on earth. The end is near, but life and love go on in a California town. Jake Peterson is the captain...

Over many centuries, wars have been lost due to lack of food and proper supplies for the troops. Without a way to survive, the troops had to retreat rather than stay and fight. The same need applied to ships at sea. New York to Okinawa Sloooooowly is the true story of a soldier who served on one of the supply ships that were vital to the survival of the troops in battle during World War II. John Barnes graduated from high school in 1941. While many...

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...

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...

The sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass. Special agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again, but now he must. A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual reality playthings, and to the worlds of the Thousand Cultures, where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens, it's a monstrous crime....

Giraut Leones, special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, is turning fifty--and someone is trying to kill him. Giraut's had a long career; the number of entities that might want him dead is effectively limitless. But recently Giraut was approached by the Lost Legion, an Occitan underground linked to an alliance of illegally human-settled worlds beyond the frontier. Also, it turns out that the Lost Legion colony...

La huella dejada por el presidente J. F. Kennedy en la vida y la política estadounidenses es inmensa. Desde su asesinato, ocurrido en Dallas en 1963, no ha habido presidente o candidato presidencial que no haya intentado erigirse en depositario de su legado. Lyndon Johnson estaba obsesionado por su figura, Richard Nixon sentía envidia hacia su personalidad, Jimmy Carter trató de emularle, Ronald Reagan copió su estrategia en política exterior...

An Apollo 11 astronaut and the Nebula Award–nominated author of Directive 51 present a novel that "conveys the wonder and promise of space" (Publishers Weekly).
Born the year of the Moon landing, Chris Terence spends his life fighting to return humanity to that pinnacle. An engineering student with dreams of spaceflight, he finds upon graduation that the United States no longer has need for astronauts. Years...