Steven Barnes
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"Steven Barnes" is an American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician.

Barnes has written several episodes of The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)/The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also written the episode Stargate SG-1 (season 1)/"Brief Candle" for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda (TV series)/Andromeda episode List of Andromeda episodes#Season 1/"The Sum of Its Parts". Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 Novella/novelette "The Locusts", was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.

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Women in general were rare in the science fiction field, and black women, ha.

It was like trying to drive in the Indy 500 with your brakes on. You burn up.

She obviously had spent a tremendous amount of her early life feeling very, very alone. She had no tribe. She didn't fit in any place. Her own family thought she was nuts ... because of what she wanted to do with her life.