Yates, W R
Entry updated 4 August 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1950- ) US author of Diasporah (short version in There Will be War, anth 1983, ed John F Carr and Jerry Pournelle; 1985), a tale which moves from the Near Future destruction of Israel (and Islam) in a nuclear Holocaust to the re-establishment of a Zionist state in a Space Habitat orbiting beyond the Moon; but New Israel is also under threat (see Politics; Paranoia; Religion), particularly from the French. [JC]
William Rolla Yates
born 1950
works
- Diasporah (New York: Baen Books, 1985) [short version first appeared in There Will be War (anth 1983) edited by John F Carr and Jerry Pournelle: pb/Alan Gutierrez]
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