Hunt, Walter H

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1959-    ) US computer programmer and author whose Dark Wing sequence of Military SF adventures – comprising The Dark Wing (2001), The Dark Path (2003), The Dark Ascent (2004) and The Dark Crusade (2005) – traverses an unusually long time-span from the first volume, featuring the dominating human admiral nicknamed the Black Wing who sacrifices himself to resolve the war between humanity and the Alien zor; later volumes carry the epic, with some attendant richness and confusions, onwards through the centuries. A central later protagonist, as wars and dilemmas proliferate, Admiral Barbara MacEwan, shows some welcome Hornblower in Space characteristics. [JC]

Walter H Hunt

born Andover, Massachusetts: 1959

works

series

Dark Wing

• The Dark Wing (New York: Tor, 2001) [Dark Wing: hb/David Seeley]
• The Dark Path (New York: Tor, 2003) [Dark Wing: hb/David Seeley]
• The Dark Ascent (New York: Tor, 2004) [Dark Wing: hb/David Seeley]
• The Dark Crusade (New York: Tor, 2005) [Dark Wing: hb/David Seeley]

Assiti Shards: 1632

• 1636: The Cardinal Virtues (New York: Baen Books, 2015) with Eric Flint (whom see) [Assiti Shards: 1632: hb/Tom Kidd]
• The Atlantic Encounter (New York: Baen Books, 2021) with Eric Flint [Assiti Shards: 1632: hb/]

individual titles

• A Song in Stone (Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast/Discoveries, 2008) [pb/Jupiterimages/Veer]
• Elements of Mind (Marlborough, Connecticut: Spencer Hill/Spence City, 2014) [pb/]

works as editor

• Council of Fire (New York: Baen Books, 2019) with Eric Flint [anth: hb/Tom Kidd]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive