Hamit, Francis
Entry updated 24 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1944- ) US screenwriter, journalist, playwright and author, in the U S Army Security Agency in the 1960s, multiply active from the middle of that decade. Several nonfantastic novels precede his first sf novel, Starmen (2024), which examines the artefactual nature of the American West as mythologized in the Western. Under the command of a mysterious woman, a giant Balloon carrying British ethnographers – including J G Frazer (1854-1941), some years before the first edition of The Golden Bough (1890) – arrives in a mildly surrealized 1875 El Paso. The balloon disappears somewhere in Indian territory, whose inhabitants have the power of flight (see Equipoise; Telekinesis): this inspires Frazer (see Mythology). A small town is host to Strangers, who win every gunfight they instigate (see Westworld; Westworld [Tv]). By the end of the tale, any world we think we know is put to the question. [JC]
Francis Hamit
born US: 6 October 1944
works (highly selected)
- Starmen (place not given: Brass Cannon Books, 2024) [book is dated 2023: pb/Markee Book Cover Designs]
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