Franson, Robert Wilfred

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(?   -    ) US author of the Overflight sequence beginning with The Shadow of the Ship (1983; rev 2014), set in a universe where interstellar travel is accomplished through a kind of Parallel World desert, by caravans; a disparate group of human-like voyagers trek across this desert – demonstrating the virtues of a communal variety of libertarianism (see Libertarian SF) as they go – in search of what seems to be a crashed Spaceship. Franson also edits Troynovant, an online critical journal [see links below]. [JC]

Robert Wilfred Franson

born Eugene, Oregon

works

series

Overflight

• The Shadow of the Ship (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1983) [Overflight: pb/David B Mattingly]
  • The Shadow of the Ship (New York: Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2014) [rev of the above: Overflight: pb/David B Mattingly]
• Sphinx Daybreak (no place given: Franson Publications, 2018) [Overflight: pb/from Lawrence Alma-Tadema]

links

• Troynovant
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive