John Barnes

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John Barnes, born in 1957 in Angola, Indiana, is an American author best known for science fiction; he considers Bowling Green, Ohio, his hometown. He earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.A. from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. in theater from the University of Pittsburgh. Alongside writing he has worked in systems analysis, business statistics, software reliability theory, sentiment analysis, statistical semiotics and formal specification, and he has taught at Western State College. He lives in Colorado. His novels include Orbital Resonance (1991), Kaleidoscope Century (1995), Mother of Storms, Candle (2000), The Sky So Big and Black (2002), the four-book Thousand Cultures series and the Daybreak trilogy, and he co-wrote two novels with Buzz Aldrin. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award three times and the Hugo Award once, and his young adult novel Tales of the Madman Underground earned a Printz Honor in 2010. One for the Morning Glory is an unusual work for him, being a comic fairy-tale fantasy.

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• One for the Morning Glory (1996) · One for the Morning Glory Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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