Sue Hollister Barr
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Sue Hollister Barr

Literature & Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Thanks for dropping by! My ambition is to delight you with genre fiction that's well-written and cleverly crafted. But I warn you that my stuff's raunchy and highly irreverent; my dark humor isn't for the squeamish or the politically correct. Recently Hugo-nominated, I'm super-psyched about my new, already critically acclaimed sci fi novella Ships, available for 99 cents on Kindle. My first publishing credits included The New York Times and Twisted, a conventionally published novel that's still selling in my new author's edition. I've published several sci fi books since, been senior editor at a literary agency, taught creative writing with the blessings of the state of New York, and am currently an active member of SFWA. Hope you have as much fun reading what's below as I had writing it! SHIPS SciFi, complete with very alien aliens, but heavily grounded enough in present-day America to be of interest to non-sci-fi readers as well. Gorgeous, and born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, Veronica Hamilton has never had to interrupt her dreamy sentimentality to question her cultural snobbery or even whether or not that diagnosis of Asperger's was accurate. But that was before her fabulously wealthy CEO husband framed her for the murders he committed. Now she's fleeing across "fly-over" America with the pedal to the metal of her burgundy-upholstered Rolls. Meanwhile, barreling toward Earth, Histus is suffering from extreme sensory deprivation because he no longer has a body. But his gas-giant home planet has been annihilated, and the only way to survive was to upload his consciousness into his crippled ship. What could these two have in common? Oh, and incidentally, will they save the planet Earth? BOOMERS FOR THE STARS SciFi, set in an Africa that has been first industrialized, and then left in ruins. Thanks to stellar advances in longevity, Earth is overrun by Baby Boomers well into their hundreds. Social Security being the stuff of history books, subsequent generations must find some way to put all those Boomers to good use…challenging since few have minds that have survived along with their bodies. But the silver lining is that few can complain about what some of those uses are. Mary, born in rural Virginia in 1948, never was the good girl just hoping to catch a husband that her family expected. Instead of just minding her evening chores, she memorized the constellations as she marveled at the majesty of the night sky. All she ever wanted was to somehow, someday make it to the stars. Now, in a charity nursing home amidst the rubble of what's now a post-industrial Africa, she might finally have lived long enough to see her wish come true. But only if she can escape her nursing home, free the other Boomers there..including the one who thinks she's Marilyn Monroe and the one who thinks he's Napoleon…and remember her own name. ROCOCO SciFi. This single, first-person point-of-view tale is, perhaps, my personal favorite. Before I wrote the first word, I spent two years researching future predictions by those paid the big bucks by major corporations to get it right. It's the year 2100. Nan has had to leave her peaceful home above what used to be the Arctic Circle for something extraordinarily old-fashioned: a physical meeting in, of all places, a city. If she doesn't contract a fatal disease first, she might just choke to death on the Rococo holography currently choking Manhattan. And why hasn't she heard anything from her best friend, Trix? Must she have dinner with the elusive boss who hired her to get those annoying aliens off welfare and back to their home planet? Tiresome. Especially when she could print up a better meal back home. But things are about to get a whole lot worse... TWISTED Horror. Completely revised new 2015 author's edition of my novel that was conventionally published in 1992 and has been selling and getting reprinted ever since. It's the 1960s, somebody's hacking up the hippies, and you get to guess who.
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