Barry B. Longyear

Barry B. Longyear (1942-2025) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is best known for the novella Enemy Mine (1979), in which a human and a reptilian alien enemy, marooned together on a hostile planet, are forced into uneasy cooperation and mutual respect; the story won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and was adapted into a 1985 film. In 1980 Longyear became the first writer to win the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in the same year, a feat unmatched until Rebecca Roanhorse in 2018. His other work includes the Circus World series, following a marooned troupe of performers building a spacefaring circus culture, the Infinity Hold prison-planet books, and the collection The Enemy Papers, which expanded his best-known novella's world. He also received the Prometheus Award.