CHILSON, Rob

   Working name of US writer Robert Dean Chilson (1945-). His first sf story was "The Mind Reader" (1968) in ASF.Of his novels, which generally fail to step beyond the routine, As the Curtain Falls (1974) is a FAR-FUTURE adventure with some highly coloured moments, The Star-Crowned Kings (1975) is a SPACE OPERA about a member of a subject race who has latent ESP powers, and Rounded with Sleep (1990) confronts its hero with an Earth in the guise - and under the computerized control - of a fantasy-role-playing game (GAMES AND TOYS). The Shores of Kansas (1976), perhaps (along with his first) RC's most interesting work, tells of a man with a natural, consciously controlled talent for TIME TRAVEL and his resulting psychological problems.

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   Other works: Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Book 5: Refuge * (1988); Men like Rats (1989).