“When you exclude one group of people from your culture's dramatic iconography, you're saying, 'We're gonna keep our secrets to ourselves. Those images and events are so consistent because they mirror the course of our lives. The arc of fiction, which is present anywhere in the world you go, has that same set of tropes Joseph Campbell talked about in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. There have been studies that say people who read fiction in emergency rooms, waiting for their loved ones to come through surgery, deal with the stress better. “I believe fiction is not frosting - it's meat and potatoes. He lives with his wife, author Tananarive Due, in Longview, Washington. Barnes has also written for television, including episodes of the '80s version of The Twilight Zone, the '90s version of The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1 and Andromeda. His solo novels include near-future Streetlethal (1983), SF martial arts novel The Kundalini Equation (1986), dark fantasy Blood Brothers (1996), and alternate history Lion's Blood (2002) and its sequel Zulu Heart (2003). He's collaborated on numerous novels since then, including Dream Park (1981) and its sequels with Niven, and The Legacy of Heorot (1987) and its sequels with Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Steven Barnes's first published fiction, 1979 novelette "The Locusts" written with Larry Niven, was a Hugo nominee. THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD
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