John Barnes (born 1957) is an American science fiction author, whose stories often explore questions of individual moral responsibility within a larger social context. Social criticism is woven throughout his plots. The four novels in his Thousand Cultures series pose serious questions about the effects of globalization on isolated societies. Barnes holds a doctorate in theatre and for several years taught in Colorado, where he still lives.
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John Barnes (born 1957) is an American science fiction author, whose stories often explore questions of individual moral responsibility within a larger social context. Social criticism is woven throughout his plots. The four novels in his Thousand Cultures series pose serious questions about the effects of globalization on isolated societies. Barnes holds a doctorate in theatre and for several years taught in Colorado, where he still lives.
Barnes has been married twice, the second to author Kara Dalkey. In the second and third books of the Thousand Cultures series, the protagonist Giraut Leones endures difficult marital tensions. Barnes notes that it has been assumed that these reflect the author's own frustration with the disintegration of his second marriage, but Barnes answers this assumption in the acknowledgments for The Armies of Memory, the fourth book in the series: "This is improbable, at the least, since I don't seem to have the foresight to plan till the end of the week,...
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