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Roger MacBride Allen

Roger MacBride Allen is the American science fiction writer behind Isaac Asimov's Caliban trilogy (an authorized Robot-series extension) and the Hunted Earth trilogy. He has written more than twenty novels across far-future SF and Star Wars and Star Trek tie-ins.

Reviews

6

Books on file

8

Avg rating

3.8

Years active

1984-1996

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  • The Torch of Honor by Roger MacBride Allen 1985 review. A near-future SF novel about an Earth-led expedition arriving at the colony world of New Finland to find it under Guard occupation.

  • The second Caliban novel. Roger MacBride Allen writing the smartest authorized Asimov sequels of the post-Foundation era.

  • The third Caliban novel. Roger MacBride Allen closing out his Asimov continuation trilogy with appropriate political weight.

  • A Roger MacBride Allen solo SF novel. Two short pieces in one volume, both with the careful diplomacy-first SF sensibility his Asimov books also have.

  • Roger MacBride Allen's genuinely strange standalone SF novel. An anthropologist uncovers fossil australopithecines on a Mississippi plantation. The book that made Allen's reputation.

  • SuperNova by Roger MacBride Allen 1991 review. A standalone hard-SF novel about a small team of physicists racing to interpret a nearby supernova that arrives ten thousand years earlier than astronomy predicted.

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