SHAARA, Michael

SHAARA, Michael
(1929-1988)
   US writer who began publishing sf with "All the Way Back" for ASF in 1952, and who for a few years seemed to be one of the heirs apparent to the sf pantheon. He did not remain in the field, however, and his name faded from its collective memory. His Civil War novel, The Killer Angels (1974), won a Pulitzer Prize. In the early 1980s he returned to sffor a short while with The Herald (1981), a novel set in a NEAR FUTURE USA, where a scientist has developed a plague with which to rid the Earthof humanity. In Soldier Boy (coll 1982) he assembled his most memorable sf stories, in which a slightly distanced diction is at times absorbingly applied to straightforward genre plots involving strange planets, ALIENS and quick revelatory ironies about the human condition.
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