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Fisher, Lou

Working name of US technical author and author Louis Fisher (1940-    ) who, during a twenty-year career writing IBM computer manuals, began publishing sf with "Triggerman" in Galaxy for September 1973. His first novel, Sunstop 8 (1978), is a Space Opera; his second, The Blue Ice Pilot (1986) as Lou Fisher, features a space war made possible by developments in Cryonics. [JC]

Louis Fisher

born Cleveland, Ohio: 1940 [1935 has also been given]

works

• Sunstop 8 (New York: Dell Books, 1978) [pb/]
• The Blue Ice Pilot (New York: Popular Library/Warner Books, 1986) [pb/Les Edwards]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 14:22 pm on 20 April 2024.
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