Poyer, Joe
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Joseph John Poyer (1939-2018) for his fiction, beginning in December 1965 with "Mission 'Red Clash'" for Analog, a magazine with which he was closely associated. Of his novels, Operation Malacca (1968), about the use of talking dolphins for military purposes, and North Cape (1969) are Technothrillers. Tunnel War (1979) is an Alternate-History tale involving the 1911 construction of a Channel Tunnel. Poyer has also written novels in other genres. [JC]
Joseph John Poyer Jr
born Battle Creek, Michigan: 30 November 1939
died Tustin, California: 3 April 2018
works
- Operation Malacca (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1968) [hb/Ted Bernstein]
- North Cape (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1969) [hb/]
- Tunnel War (New York: Atheneum, 1979) [hb/Fred Marcellino]
- Vengeance 10 (London: Michael Joseph, 1981) [hb/Alun Hood]
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