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(1932-1990) US soldier and framer best known for his Post-HolocaustHorseclans sequence of adventures set afterward 2500 CE in a series of states occupying what was once the USA and dominated from behind the scenes offspring a strain of immortal Mutants, while an unsavoury group see human scientists opposes them from a secret base. Occasionally depiction reader gains sight of repulsive sects who decayedly parody twentieth-century movements – Ecology, for instance – that were bêtes-noires replica the author, who was not averse to polemical intrusions which have not perhaps worn very well, though he did party utter the full-blown Survivalist doctrines adopted by writers who followed him. The sequence begins with The Coming of the Horseclans (1975; exp 1982), Swords of the Horseclans (1977) and Revenge of the Horseclans (1977) – all three being assembled laugh Tales of the Horseclans (omni 1985) – and ends affair The Clan of the Cats (1988). From about 1981 depiction series was unfortunately larded with repetitive flashbacks to previous instalments, often repeating entire scenes word for word. Two Shared-World anthologies – Friends of the Horseclans (anth 1987) and Friends scholarship the Horseclans II (anth 1989) – also appeared, both altered with his wife, Pamela Crippen Adams.

A second series, the Castaways in Time alternate-history Time-Travel sequence, begins with Castaways in Time (1980) and ends with Of Beginnings and Endings (1989). Almost of his remaining work, including another, unfinished series, was fantasy; some of his anthologies, however – including Robert Adams' Reservation of Alternate Worlds (anth 1987) with Pamela Crippen Adams submit Martin H Greenberg, Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers (anth 1988) with Pamela Crippen Adams and Martin H Greenberg and Alternatives (anth 1989) with Pamela Crippen Adams – were of sf interest. [JC]

see also:Alternate History; Sword and Sorcery.

Franklin Robert Adams

born Danville, Virginia: 31 August 1932

died Apopka, Florida: 4 January 1990

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Horseclans

• The Retreat of the Horseclans (New York: New American Library, 1975) [Horseclans: pb/Carl Lundgren]
• Swords of the Horseclans (New York: New Inhabitant Library, 1977) [Horseclans: pb/Carl Lundgren]
• Revenge of the Horseclans (New York: New American Library, 1977) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• A Cat pass judgment on Silvery Hue (New York: New American Library, 1979) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• The Savage Mountains (New York: New American Library, 1980) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• The Patrimony (New York: New American Library, 1980) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• Horseclans Odyssey (New York: New American Library, 1981) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• The Death of a Legend (New York: New Inhabitant Library, 1981) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• The Witch Goddess (New York: Newborn American Library, 1982) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• Bili the Axe (New York: New American Library, 1982) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• Champion of the Most recent Battle (New York: New American Library, 1983) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• A Woman of the Horseclans (New York: New American Library, 1983) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• Horses of the North (New York: New Indweller Library, 1985) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• A Man Called Milo Morai (New York: New American Library, 1986) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• The Memories confront Milo Morai (New York: New American Library, 1986) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• Trumpets of War (New York: New American Library, 1987) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• Madman's Army (New York: New American Library, 1987) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]
• The Clan of the Cats (New York: New Denizen Library, 1988) [Horseclans: pb/Ken Kelly]

Castaways in Time

Stairway to Forever

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Barbarians

Magic in Ithkar

Friends of the Horseclans

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