BLAKENEY, Jay D.

   Pseudonym of US writer Deborah A. Chester (1957-), whose Anthi sequence - The Children of Anthi(1985) and Requiem for Anthi (1990) - aroused some interest. It is a far-reaching and moderately complex vision of humanity's future EVOLUTION, guided by the eponymous AI, into a form that is half-flesh and half-electronics. Set on a heavily populated galactic stage, the sequence demonstrates JDB's sensitivity to the potential differentness from 1990 of so multifarious a venue. Two singletons, The Omcri Matrix (1987) and The Goda War (1989), are less remarkable. JDB seemed to be a writer to watch with some interest, but the Operation StarHawks sf adventures, all written as by Sean Dalton, were not engrossing: Operation StarHawks \#1: Space Hawks (1990), \#2: Code Name Peregrine (1990), \#3: Beyond the Void (1991), \#4: The Rostma Lure (1991), \#5: Destination: Mutiny (1991) and \#6: The Salukan Gambit (1992). The Time-Trap sequence - comprisingTime-Trap (1992), Showdown (1992), Pieces of Eight (1992) and Restoration (1994) - begins with a man from the future trapped in 14th-century Greece, and continues in other periods.

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