GADALLAH, Leslie

(1939-)

   Canadian writer best known for her Cat's Pawn sequence - Cat's Pawn (1987 US) and Cat's Gambit (1990 US) - in which a human protagonist becomes involved with the eponymous catlike alien Orioni, themselves involved in a desperate war against the invading Kazi, who dominate much of the Galaxy by the end of the second volume, which ends on an unusual downbeat, suggesting that further volumes may be projected. The Loremasters (1988 US), a singleton, less impressively pits a civilizedenclave against a horde of barbarians on an energy-starved future Earth.

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