Author

Rob Dorsey

2 series · 1 standalone · 11 works in the catalog

b. 1947 · Athens, Texas, USA

Rob Dorsey is an American author, born in 1947 in Athens, Texas, working in planetary-romance science fantasy in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels. His Barsoom Pentalogy -- including A Prince of Mars, Mad Kings of Mars, and Warrior Princess of Mars -- follows the swashbuckling, sword-and-planet adventure conventions of that tradition directly, while his companion Avinon Chronicles retells similar planetary-adventure material under a renamed setting, with titles such as Mad Kings of Aerides and Warrior Princess of Aerides. Dorsey's fiction favors old-fashioned interplanetary swordplay, captured princesses, and warring kingdoms, positioning his work as a modern continuation of early twentieth-century pulp science-fantasy storytelling.

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