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Steven Barnes is an American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician.
He has written several novels and teleplays. He has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also written the episode "Brief Candle" for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode "The Sum of Its Parts."
Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette The Locusts, was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.
Barnes is also an avid practitioner of martial and physical arts. He is a black belt in Kenpo Karate (Aikka style), and Kodokan Judo. He holds an instructor certificate in Wu Ming Ta, and has an instructor candidate ranking in Filipino Kali stick and knife fighting. He is an advanced student in Jun Fan kickboxing (Bruce Lee method under Dan Inosanto), and is an instructor in Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan under Hawkins Cheung.
He is an intermediate student in self-defense pistol shooting (preferring the Turnipseed modified Weaver method). He holds a brown belt in Shorenji Jiu Jitsu, and intermediate rankings in Tae Kwon Do and Aikido. He completed the Yoga Works basic Hatha Yoga instructor program; is presently studying Pentjak Silat (an Indonesian fighting system) with Guru Stevan Plinck, and Ashtanga Yoga, an aerobic form of yoga.
He lives Los Angeles.
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The Music of Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes
February 18, 2003
About three years ago, I was deeply occupied with the writing of Lion's
Blood. I came to feel that the basic concept behind it was almost outrageously
controversial, and that I would be able to use every ounce of creativity I
could muster to increase verisimilitude, to overcome a reader's natural
tendency to say "It's only a book, its only a book..." which would
severely compromise my goals for the project. It occurred to me that one way
to do this would be the deeping on the slave culture, to give the reader the
sense that they had existed before the book began, and would continue to live
after the covers were closed. What if, I thought, I could create some Irish
slave songs: spirituals, work songs, etc., that would carry their culture and
express their emotions in a way similar to the way such songs did in the
American South?
I had been introduced to Heather Alexander by a mutual friend, Sonia Lyris,
and thought that Heather might be absolutely ideal—she was talented, a
dynamite performer, a songwriter, and we had made, I thought, a good personal
connection. This was essential, because Lion's Blood is an ...
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