Morris, Jim

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1940-    ) US author whose The Sheriff of Purgatory (1979; rev vt Spurlock: Sheriff of Purgatory 1987) describes, with moments of sharpness, a Post-Holocaust conflict between the sheriff and the Mafia in the eponymous Arkansas county. The action soon moves to a devastated New York. Breeder: Dewey Ann (1988) is similarly set in a Near Future America riven by dissent and violence. [JC]

Jim Morris

born Ava, Missouri: 1940

works

• The Sheriff of Purgatory (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1979) [hb/Sam McLean]
  • Spurlock: Sheriff of Purgatory (New York: Tor, 1987) [rev vt of the above: pb/]
• Breeder: Dewey Ann (New York: Tor, 1988) [pb/Luis Royo]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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previous versions of this entry

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