The Enemy Papers
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The Enemy Papers (White Wolf Publishing, 1998, ISBN 1-56865-949-0) is a short story collection by Barry B. Longyear containing the novella "Enemy Mine" and its two sequels The Last Enemy and The Tomorrow Testament
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[edit] Enemy Mine
Willis Davidge, a human fighter pilot, is stranded along with Jeriba Shigan, a Drac, on a hostile planet. A film has been made of this novella.
"Enemy Mine" is also included in Longyear's earlier collection Manifest Destiny, along with other stories set in the same future history. The novel-length version Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear and David Gerrold was published after the movie.
[edit] The Talman
Excerpts and stories from Dracs' holy book. Contains the Story of Uhe, the Myth of Aakva, fragments of the Story of Shizumaat, and other tales. The Story of Shizumaat makes up the majority of the text, as Shizumaat is the Dracs' most important philosopher. Many of the works contains moral or philosophical statements as to how Dracs should live their lives.
[edit] The Tomorrow Testament
Joanna Nicole, a human female, was captured by Dracs, and had been blinded in the process. She is taken in by high ranking Drac military officer, where like Davidge, she learns the Talman. While she heals her wounds, and is nursed back to health by the Dracs; she discovers that the war between Dracs and Humans had been manipulated by another race called the Timans. Also she had discovered that the war had ended with a peace treaty sometime ago and her host wished her to stay. Her discovery, along with her personal growth, is complied into another book of the Talman called Through Eyes of Joanna Nicole.
[edit] The Last Enemy
The Last Enemy begins on the planet Amadeen which started general outbreak of the war. It again desolved into a planetary conflict, which both side are stalemated. It chronicles how the conflicted is ended by the actions of both Davidge, and Yazi Ro, a Drac from Amadeen.
