
His succeeding series are usually fantasy. However, he soon became best known for his high Fantasy, especially the Dread Empire series, beginning with A Shadow of All Night Falling ( 1979), which was notable for its concerted military set-pieces, moderately complex plotting, violence, and a sense of undue haste – he has been exceedingly prolific.


(1944- ) US author who began his sf career with orthodox stories like his first, "Song from a Forgotten Hill" for Clarion (anth 1971), edited by Robin Scott Wilson, and with the sf novel The Heirs of Babylon ( 1972), in which an authoritarian religious government takes over in the Post-Holocaust era.
