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Nighbert, David F

(1948-    ) US author who began publishing sf with his Stryker sequence – Timelapse (1988) and Clouds of Magellan (1991) – which engages its Cyborg protagonist first in a complicated Time-Paradox tale whose villain tricks him into falling in love with his own mother, and second in a traditional search for the long-gone Alien "Builders" responsible for an enormous artefact (see Macrostructures) called The Wheel. Strikezone (1989), which begins the Bull Cochrane sequence, again shows Nighbert's competence but also a disturbing tendency to rifle his genres for material without showing much concern for establishing a bailiwick of his own; further instalments in this series were entirely nonfantastic. [JC]

David Franklin Nighbert

born Knoxville, Tennessee: 26 July 1948

works

series

Stryker

• Timelapse (New York: St Martin's Press, 1988) [Stryker: hb/]
• Clouds of Magellan (New York: St Martin's Press, 1991) [Stryker: hb/Ron Walotsky]

individual titles

• Strikezone (New York: St Martin's Press, 1989) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:43 am on 15 May 2025.
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