Steven Barnes was born on March 1,1952 and is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.
18 Facts About Steven Barnes
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Steven Barnes has written novels, short fiction, screen plays for television, scripts for comic books, animation, newspaper copy, and magazine articles.
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Steven Barnes has had a varied education, including a secondary education at Los Angeles High School.
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Steven Barnes continued at Pepperdine University, majoring in communication arts.
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Steven Barnes wrote several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch.
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Steven Barnes wrote the episode "Brief Candle" for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode "The Sum of Its Parts".
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Steven Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette "The Locusts", was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.
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Steven Barnes subsequently collaborated with Niven on several other books, including three books with both Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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Steven Barnes said he clashed politically with the two conservative writers but enjoyed working with them, calling it "a tremendous learning opportunity".
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Steven Barnes's 2004 Star Wars tie-in novel The Cestus Deception was a New York Times bestseller.
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Together with his wife, Tananarive Due, and actor Blair Underwood, Steven Barnes won the 2009 NAACP Image Award for outstanding Literary Work - Fiction for In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel.
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Steven Barnes has a daughter from his first marriage and a son from his current marriage.
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Steven Barnes is an avid practitioner of martial and physical arts.
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Steven Barnes is a black belt in Kenpo Karate, and Kodokan Judo.
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Steven Barnes holds an instructor certificate in Wu Ming Ta, and has an instructor candidate ranking in Filipino Kali stick and knife fighting.
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Steven Barnes is an intermediate student in self-defense pistol shooting.
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Steven Barnes holds a brown belt in Shorenji Jiu Jitsu, and intermediate rankings in Tae Kwon Do and Aikido.
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Steven Barnes completed the Yoga Works basic Hatha Yoga instructor program; is studying Pentjak Silat with Guru Stevan Plinck, and Ashtanga Yoga, an aerobic form of yoga.