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Wismer, Don

(1946-    ) US author who began publishing sf with Starluck (1982), a competent sf adventure. Warrior Planet (1987) combines sf and fantasy elements in the story of an interstellar conflict between wizards and thieves. Planet of the Dead (1988) rather more convincingly sets a cadre of Psi-Powered samurai warriors in pursuit of an interstellar Drug gang. The author's fourth novel, A Roil of Stars (1991), was followed by a long silence until he returned to sf with Lion in the Sky (2019), featuring a huge Israeli Space Station as the key to that nation's escape from its perennial enemies. [JC/DRL]

Donald Richard Wismer

born 27 December 1946

works

• Starluck (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1982) [hb/Jeffrey Smith]
• Warrior Planet (New York: Baen Books, 1987) [pb/A Craig Farley]
• Planet of the Dead (New York: Baen Books, 1988) [pb/A Craig Farley]
• A Roil of Stars (New York: Baen Books, 1991) [pb/Debbie Hughes]
• Lion in the Sky (place not given but presumably Maine: Utterly Fantastic Press of Maine, 2019) [pb/]

works as editor

• Killing London (Orem, Utah: Hemelein Publications, 2021) with Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/Henrique Alvim Corrêa]
• The Rivals of H.G. Wells, Vol. 1 (Short Stories and Novelettes) (Pueblo, Colorado: SamTeddy Publishing, 2021) with Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/]

links

• Don Wismer (archived)
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 06:44 am on 9 February 2025.
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