McDermott, Shannon
Entry updated 24 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who identifies as Christian (see Religion); her first novel, The Last Heir (2009), which is set in a world partially described through generalized instancings from the SF Megatext, focuses on a dynastic dispute. After several fantasy novels, she returned to sf with the ongoing Eternities sequence beginning with The Time Door (2024), set on a Near Future Mars four of whose human explorers have been abandoned by an Earth in what may be terminal crisis. Impelled by the understanding that God intended them to be there, the four descend into the Underground mysteries of the planet, a trek which confronts them with mysteries of Time Travel. [JC]
Shannon McDermott
born USA
works (selected)
series
Eternities
- The Time Door (Carol Stream, Illinois: Oasis Family Media/Enclave Publishing, 2024) [Eternities: hb/Lindsey Lewellen]
individual titles
- The Last Heir (place not given: SALT Christian Press, 2009) [pb/]
- The Valley of Decision (place not given: SALT Christian Press, 2014) [pb/]
- The Sunrise Windows (place not given: SALT Christian Press, 2014) [pb/]
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