SWANN, S. Andrew

SWANN, S. Andrew
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   US writer of a sequence of sf noir detective novels set in a world where GENETICALLY ENGINEERED animals-called "moreaus" after H.G. WELLS's THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1896), and also evocative of the evolved animalsin Cordwainer SMITH's Instrumentality of Man-have been bred to occupy underclass roles in NEAR FUTURE America. The sequence to date comprises Forests of the Night (1993), after William Blake, and in honour of thefact that the detective protagonist of the series comes from tiger stock, Emperors of the Twilight (1994) and Specters of the Dawn (1994). A secondseries, set in the same world but centuries later, begins with Profiteer (1995).
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