Torgersen, Brad R
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1974- ) US healthcare computer technician and author who, after a least one student publication at the beginning of the twenty-first century, began to release work of genre interest with "Extanastasis" in L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XXVI (anth 2010) edited by K D Wentworth. Most of his work can be described as adventure-oriented Hard SF, with stories appearing frequently in Analog; a considerable proportion of his output has been assembled in Lights in the Deep (coll 2013) and Racers in the Night: Science Fiction Stories (coll 2014). His first series, the Military SF Chaplain's War sequence, was initiated by The Chaplain's War (fixup: 2014), but further volumes have yet to appear. The protagonist's vocation, and his seemingly Homo sapiens-specific capacity to believe in an intangible God (see Religion), are dramatized with as much complexity as permitted through the simplistics of Fan Service, in the midst of a tale otherwise dominated by interstellar War. A Star-Wheeled Sky (2018) is Space Opera. [JC]
Brad R Torgersen
born 6 April 1974
works
series
The Chaplain's War
- The Chaplain's War (New York: Baen Books, 2014) [fixup: Chaplain's War: pb/David Seeley]
- A Star-Wheeled Sky (New York: Baen Books, 2018) [pb/Alan Pollack]
collections and stories
- Lights in the Deep (Monument, Colorado: WordFire Press, 2013) [coll: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- Racers in the Night: Science Fiction Stories (Monument, Colorado: WordFire Press, 2014) [coll: pb/Nick Greenwood]
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