(1949-2017) US author who served in the US Navy on nuclear submarines; his first professional sale, at the age of seven, was a poem for Look magazine in 1956. He is of sf interest for two energetic adventure series: the Duelist sequence, beginning with Legend of the Duelist (1993), which is Military SF featuring bounty hunters who plan to exploit an outbreak of interstellar War; and the Agent sequence, beginning with Agent of Destruction (1996), which features a teenage girl spy who thwarts challengers to peace in a Space Opera context. [JC]
Rutledge E Etheridge
born Portsmouth, Virginia: 29 September 1949
died Jamestown, Indiana: 3 August 2017
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Duelist
Agent
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