Lancour, Gene
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Gene Louis Fisher (1947- ), US author of the Sword-and-Sorcery Dirshan, the God-Killer sequence featuring a barbarian warrior strenuously in the service of a goddess: The Lerios Mecca (1973), The War Machines of Kalinth (1977), Sword for the Empire (1978) and The Maneaters of Cascalon (1979). Lancour's next book was sf: The Globes of Llarum (1980) puts a mercenary on the side of rebel independents against a giant corporation on a frontier planet; complications routinely ensue. [PN]
Gene Louis Fisher
born Chicago, Illinois: 15 June 1947
works
series
Dirshan, the God-Killer
- The Lerios Mecca (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1973) [Dirshan, the God-Killer: hb/Steve Marcesi]
- The War Machines of Kalinth (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1977) [Dirshan, the God-Killer: hb/Steve Marcesi]
- Sword for the Empire (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1978) [Dirshan, the God-Killer: hb/Steve Marcesi]
- The Maneaters of Cascalon (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1979) [Dirshan, the God-Killer: hb/Steve Marcesi]
Tales of the Waste
- Orph the Inimitable (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2015) [Tales of the Waste: pb/]
- The Perils of Puryas (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2015) [Tales of the Waste: pb/]
- The Emralds of Ruerc (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2015) ["Emralds" thus spelt: Tales of the Waste: pb/]
- The Belt of Aldia (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2015) [Tales of the Waste: pb/]
- Remnant of Empire (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2015) [Tales of the Waste: pb/]
individual titles
- The Globes of Llarum (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1980) [hb/Bruce Schluter]
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