Cross, Ronald Anthony
Entry updated 10 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1937-2006) US author who began publishing sf with "The Story of Three Cities" in New Worlds 6 (anth 1973) edited by Michael Moorcock and Charles Platt; the tale's steely moroseness characterizes a good deal of his work in shorter forms, much of it posthumously assembled as The Ronald Anthony Cross Science Fiction & Fantasy Megapack: 20 Great Tales (coll 2019 ebook). His first novel, Prisoners of Paradise (1988), bleakly generates a sense that the Fantasy-Island-type trap it depicts is not to be escaped from, that the prisoner who is its protagonist will never escape the Pocket Universe hotel in which he is immured. The Eternal Guardians sequence, beginning with The Fourth Guardian (1994), is a fantasy of history (see Secret Masters). [JC]
Ronald Anthony Cross
born Hollywood, California: 12 September 1937
died Sherman Oaks, California: 1 March 2006
works
series
Eternal Guardians
- The Fourth Guardian (New York: Tor, 1994) [Eternal Guardians: hb/Ron Walotsky]
- The Lost Guardian (New York: Tor, 1995) [Eternal Guardians: hb/Ron Walotsky]
- The White Guardian (New York: Tor, 1998) [Eternal Guardians: hb/Ron Walotsky]
individual titles
- Prisoners of Paradise (New York: Franklin Watts, 1988) [hb/J K Potter]
collections and stories
- The Ronald Anthony Cross Science Fiction & Fantasy Megapack: 20 Great Tales (Cabin John, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2019) [coll: ebook: na/]
links
previous versions of this entry