McCOLLUM, Michael A.

McCOLLUM, Michael A.
(1946-)
   US writer and control-systems engineer specializing in aerospace propulsion. MAM began publishing sf with "Duty, Honor, Planet" for ASF in 1979. His first novel, A Greater Infinity (fixup 1982), established thepattern he would follow through the 1980s: a complex SPACE-OPERA adventure plot involves humans (in this case Terrans) with one or more alien races as wars, quests and challenges galore generate a sense of movement. The Makers series - Life PROBE (1983) and Procyon's Promise (1985) - and theAntares series - Antares Dawn (1986) and Antares Passage (1987) - are in this mould, but Thunderstrike! (1989) deals more mundanely with what happens when a comet strikes Earth, and The Clouds of Saturn (1991) concerns human and internecine strife in the cloud-cities colonizing Saturn. MAM's touch is usually light, and accusations of racism -occasioned by the sorry fate Africa suffers in the Makers books - seem almost certainly misdirected.
   JC
   Other works: The Sails of Tau Ceti (1992).

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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