Roger macbride allen biography of michael
Roger MacBride Allen biography!
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Roger macbride allen biography of michael
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(1957- ) US author who began writing with the TorchSpace-Opera series, The Torch of Honor (1985) and Rogue Powers (1986) – both assembled as Allies and Aliens (omni, rev 1995) – whose considerable impact may seem excessive to anyone familiar only with the books in synopsis, as neither might have appeared to offer anything new.
The Torch of Honor begins with a scene all too evocative of Robert A Heinlein's sf juveniles from three decades earlier, as a batch of space cadets graduates from academy into interstellar hot water after learning – in a scene which any viewer of John Ford's Cavalry Westerns would also recognize – of the death of many of their fellows in a space encounter.
But Allen, while clearly making no secret of his allegiance to nostalgia-inducing narrative conventions, remained very much a writer of the 1980s in the physical complexity and moral dubiety of the