LANCOUR, Gene

   Working name of Gene Lancour Fisher (1947-), US author of the SWORD-AND-SORCERY Dirshan series about Dirshan the God-Killer, a barbarian warrior: The Lerios Mecca (1973), The War Machines of Kalinth (1977), Sword for the Empire (1978) and The Maneaters of Cascalon (1979). GL'snext book was sf: The Globes of Llarum (1980) puts a mercenary on the side of rebel independents against a giant corporation on a frontier planet; complications routinely ensue.

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