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

Contents

[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

Chronicles the capture of Joanne Nicole, a human female, at the hands of the Dracs. Soon after she is blinded by a USEF bombing raid. She is taken in by high ranking Drac military officer, where like Davidge, she learns the Talman. While she recovers, she discovers that the war between Dracs and Humans was the result of a conspiracy by another race called the Timans. She writes the tale of her life, capture, and personal growth, and submits it as the first book of the Talman not authored by a Drac: The Eyes of Joanne Nicole.

[edit] The Last Enemy

The Last Enemy begins on the planet Amadeen, on which the human-Drac war began. A treaty was resolved in The Tomorrow Testament which limited the fighting to this single planet. It chronicles how the conflict is eventually ended by the actions of both Davidge, and Yazi Ro, a Drac from Amadeen.