DeCHANCIE, John

(1946-)

   US writer who worked in tv in various capacities before beginning to publish sf with his Skyway Trilogy: Starrigger (1983), Red Limit Freeway (1984) and Paradox Alley (1986). Based on a truckers-in-space premise with some comic potential, the already crowded tale is complicated by TIME PARADOXES, godlings and much more; the ensuing epic is at points extremely funny. A second comic sf sequence, the USS Recluse stories, began with The Kruton Interface (1993); and a third, the Dr. Dimension series in collaboration with David BISCHOFF, began with Dr. Dimension (1993) and Dr. Dimension: Masters of Spacetime (1994), both containing RECURSIVE SF elements.Crooked House (1987) with Thomas F. MONTELEONE is a horror novel, and the Zelaznyesque Castle Perilous sequence - Castle Perilous (1988), Castle for Rent (1989), Castle Kidnapped (1989), Castle War! (1990), Castle Murders (1991),Castle Dreams (1992) and Castle Spellbound (1992) - is fantasy, as is MagicNet (1993). JDC has also written two biographies: Peron (1987) and Nasser (1987).

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