Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author. He was born in

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, and grew up outside of

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, graduating from Walt Whitman High School. He graduated from

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in 1979. His father was American historian and author Thomas B. Allen.

Background

Allen's family moved to

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, in 1966, when he was nine years old. He earned a degree in journalism from Boston University, after-which he returned to suburban Washington DC.

Works

''Allies and Aliens''

*'' The Torch of Honor'' (1985) *'' Rogue Powers'' (1986) **'' Allies and Aliens'' (1995) collects ''The Torch of Honor'' and ''Rogue Powers''

''Hunted Earth''

*'' The Ring of Charon'' (1990) *'' The Shattered Sphere'' (1994) *'' The Falling World'' (TBA)

''Caliban''

*'' Isaac Asimov's Caliban'' (1993) *''

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'' (1994) *'' Isaac Asimov's Utopia'' (1996)

''Chronicles of Solace''

*'' The Depths of Time'' (2000) *'' The Ocean of Years'' (2002) *''

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'' (2003)

''BSI Starside''

*'' BSI Starside: The Cause of Death'' (2006) *'' BSI Starside: Death Sentence'' (2007) *'' BSI Starside: Final Inquiries'' (2008)

''Corellian'' (Star Wars)

*'' Star Wars: Ambush at Corellia'' (1995) *'' Star Wars: Assault at Selonia'' (1995) *'' Star Wars: Showdown at Centerpoint'' (1995)

Stand-alone novels

*''

Orphan of Creation ''Orphan of Creation'' is a 1988 science fiction novel by American author Roger MacBride Allen. The book was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1989. Synopsis Anthropologists discover a remnant of ancestral genus ''Australopithecus''; p ...

'' (1988) *''

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'' (1988) *'' The War Machine: Crisis of Empire III'' (1989), with

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*''Supernova'' (1991), with

Eric Kotani was a Japanese-born American astrophysicist who also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited '' Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master'' (1992), and contributed to '' New Des ...

*''

The Modular Man ''The Modular Man'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen. It is the fourth in the Next Wave series. Plot summary The novel concerns the issue of personhood and what it takes to be considered a member of the moral u ...

'' (1992), accompanying the novel is an essay by

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"Intelligent Robots and Cybernetic Organisms."

Historical

*''Time Capsule: The Book of Record'' (2010) with Thomas B. Allen *''Mr. Lincoln's High Tech War'' (2008) with Thomas B. Allen

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