Severance, Carol
Entry updated 1 January 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1944-2015) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Isle of Illusion" for Tales of the Witch World (anth 1987) edited by Andre Norton, an anthology of stories set in Norton's Witch World Shared World. Severance's first novel, Reefsong (1991), which won the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award, features a female protagonist forcibly modified for life Under the Sea (see Genetic Engineering) and sent on an interstellar mission by the corporation which controls her destiny. The Island Warrior sequence – comprising Demon Drums (1992), Storm Caller (1993) and Sorcerous Sea (1993) – is fantasy, based on Polynesian material and using Pacific Island settings. [JC]
see also: Regeneration.
Carol Ann Wilcox Severance
born Ohio: 1944
died Hilo, Hawaii: 19 February 2015
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Island Warrior
- Demon Drums (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1992) [Island Warrior: pb/Mark Harrison]
- Storm Caller (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1993) [Island Warrior: pb/Mark Harrison]
- Sorcerous Sea (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1993) [Island Warrior: pb/Mark Harrison]
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