Olsen, Rodger
Entry updated 16 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US software writer, computer game designer and author, the title novel of whose The Empire of Texas (coll 2005) is a Western-style adventure set in Post-Holocaust Texas 400 years after a devastating Pandemic; the Emperor of Texas is one of those working towards a restored civilization, but his realm is threatened with Invasion. Olsen also collaborated with Leo A Frankowski on the two last-published volumes of the latter's Adventures of Conrad Stargard Alternate-History sequence: Lord Conrad's Crusade (2005) and Conrad's Last Campaign (2014), the second of these completed by Olsen from an outline and partial draft after Frankowski's death. [DRL]
Rodger Olsen
born USA
works
series
Adventures of Conrad Stargard
- Lord Conrad's Crusade (San Bernardino, California: Great Authors Online, 2005) with Leo A Frankowski [Adventures of Conrad Stargard: pb/]
- Conrad's Last Campaign (San Bernardino, California: Great Authors Online, 2014) with Leo A Frankowski [Adventures of Conrad Stargard: pb/]
collections
- The Empire of Texas (San Bernardino, California: Great Authors Online, 2005) [coll: title novel plus novelette "The Star of India": pb/Chris Ciulla]
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