JAVOR, Frank A.

   Working name of US writer Francis Anthony Jaworski (1916-), who has written an estimated 10,000 "how to" articles for service magazines. He has appeared infrequently in sf magazines from 1963, his first story being "Patriot" for ASF; three tales were included in the Judith MERRIL Year'sBest S-F series of anthologies. The Eli Pike series of sf novels - The Rim-World Legacy (1967; exp as coll vt The Rim-World Legacy and Beyond 1991), Scor-Sting (1990) and The Ice Beast (1990) - comprises 3 capably framed intrigues on RIMWORLDS, where Pike must maintain some sort of order. The series manages, despite the quarter-century gap between episodes, to remain fresh.

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