Great Sky Woman (44 page)
Authors: Steven Barnes
About the Author
S
TEVEN
B
ARNES
is an author, lecturer and personal consultant who has lectured on creativity and human performance technologies at locations from UCLA, USC, and the Pasadena Jet Propulsion Lab to the Smithsonian Institute.
In the field of fiction writing, Barnes has published twenty novels and more than two million words of science fiction and fantasy. He’s been nominated for Hugo, Nebula and Cable Ace awards. His “A Stitch in Time” episode of
The Outer Limits
won the Emmy Award, and his alternate history novel
Lion’s Blood
won the 2003 Endeavor.
In the realm of mental and physical development, Barnes holds instructor certificates in Ericksonian Hypnosis and Circular Strength Training, and created the Lifewriting seminars utilizing Joseph Campbell’s model of the Hero’s Journey to help individuals and organizations grasp the flow of individual and team effort enabling peak performance. Second-place winner at the 1972 National Korean Karate championships, he holds black belts in Judo and Kempo Karate, has taught Tai Chi for twenty years, and is one of only a dozen people in the country certified in Softwork, an evolution of martial arts and yoga based on a century of Soviet research.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter Nicki and son Jason.
Also by Steven Barnes
Dream Park
with Larry Niven
The Descent of Anansi
with Larry Niven
Streetlethal
The Kundalini Equation
The Legacy of Heorot
with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Barsoom Project
Gorgon Child
Achilles’ Choice
with Larry Niven
The California Voodoo Game
with Larry Niven
Firedance
Beowulf’s Children
with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Blood Brothers
Iron Shadows
Far Beyond the Stars
Saturn’s Race
with Larry Niven
Charisma
Lion’s Blood
Zulu Heart
Star Wars: The Cestus Deception
Great Sky Woman
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Steven Barnes
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by One World Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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W
ORLD
is a registered trademark and the One World colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Map and illustration by David Lindroth, based on a design by Toni Young.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barnes, Steven.
Great Sky Woman : a novel / Steven Barnes.
p. cm.
Novel.
I. Title.
PS3552.A6954G74 2006
813'.54—dc22 2006040039
eISBN: 978-0-345-49339-2
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