PEIRCE, Hayford

PEIRCE, Hayford
(1942-)
   US writer who began publishing sf with "Unlimited Warfare" for ASF in 1974 and who established a name for lightly written tales whose backgrounds were unusually well conceived. "Mail Supremacy" (1975) began a series - which has not reached book form - in which an Anglo-Chinese businessman brings Earth into the Galactic Postal Union. Napoleon Disentimed (1987; exp 1989 UK), his first novel, is an attractive exampleof what might be called the ALTERNATE-WORLDS hijinks tale: cast into a 1992 ruled by the French Empire, a confidence trickster attempts to upsetthe applecart. The Thirteenth Majestral (1989) - HP's titles are notably inventive - is a TIME-TRAVEL tale set in the far future and disregardful of the pretensions of established religion. Phylum Monsters (1989) deals amusedly with GENETIC ENGINEERING.
   JC

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