KING, T(homas) Jackson (Jr)

(1948-)

   US archaeologist and writer, married to Paula E. DOWNING. He began publishing sf with his first novel, Retread Shop (1988), a somewhat congested but pleasingly vivid tale of the upbringing of a young human in the SPACE HABITAT of the title, and of his complicated dealings with alien merchants and crises of various sorts. The energy of the telling constitutes a forecast of much further work.

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