TYERS, Kathy

   Working name of US writer Kathleen Moore Tyers (1952-). She began writing with her Firebird sequence,Firebird (1987) and Fusion Fire (1988), set in an interplanetary-romance venue replete with colourful planetary cultures, an overarching Federation, space invasions, palace politics and the discovery of budding PSI POWERS in the eponymous protagonist, a princess on an evil planet. Her route to psionic maturity and marital happiness with a telepathic intelligence officer from a neighbouring world is depicted with cluttered vigour. In Crystal Witness (1989) a female criminal, exiled to another world, must come triumphantly to terms with her new circumstances. In Shivering World (1991) yet another arrival into an alien world must deal with the TERRAFORMING problems of some settlers. KT is an active writer, and may settle into significant work, though StarWars: The Truce at Bakura* (1994) does not, perhaps, mark the way forward.

   JC