Rosenman, John B
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1941- ) US academic and author, most of whose large output (which includes more than 300 stories) is horror, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Vacation" in The Horror Show for Fall 1983. His first novel, Beyond Those Distant Stars (2003), proved typical of much of his work, being a broad-gauge Space Opera whose protagonist (here a transfigured woman) may be a Cyborg with extensive powers. Similarly the enhanced protagonist of the Inspector of the Cross sequence, beginning with Inspector of the Cross (2012), makes use of Suspended Animation and other devices out of the SF Megatext to travel through the galaxy searching for Weapons with which to defend humanity against interstellar foes. The Dreamfarer sequence beginning with Dreamfarer (2021) is set in a world where dreams can be escaped into: except for the protagonist, doomed to remain in the real world, where he discovers much. [JC]
John Brown Rosenman
born Cleveland, Ohio: 16 April 1941
works (selected)
series
Inspector of the Cross
- Inspector of the Cross (Canada: MuseItUp Publishing, 2012) [ebook: Inspector of the Cross: na/]
- Kingdom of the Jax (Canada: MuseItUp Publishing, 2013) [ebook: Inspector of the Cross: na/]
- Defender of the Flame (Canada: MuseItUp Publishing, 2015) [ebook: Inspector of the Cross: na/]
- Skyburst (Canada: MuseItUp Publishing, 2018) [ebook: Inspector of the Cross: na/]
- Conqueror of the Stars (place not given: Crossroad Press, 2020) [ebook: Inspector of the Cross: na/]
Dreamfarer
- Dreamfarer (place not given: Crossroad Press/Mystique Press, 2021) [Dreamfarer: pb/]
- Go East, Young Man (place not given: Crossroad Press/Macabre Ink, 2022) [Dreamfarer: pb/]
individual titles
- Beyond Those Distant Stars (place not given: NovelBooks, 2003) [pb/]
- Speaker of the Shakk (Cincinnati, Ohio: Mundania Press, 2008) [pb/]
- Alien Dreams (South Euclid, Ohio: Drollerie Press, 2009) [pb/]
collections and stories
- More Stately Mansions: The Selected Works of John B Rosenman (Dark Regions Press, 1999) [coll: pb/Fredrik King]
- Dark Desires: Two Tales of Erotic Horror (place not given: for the author, 2017) [coll: pb/]
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