Storm Season by Andrew J. Offutt] [cover ar...

The 'Gods on Earth'- implied to be the advanced refugees of interplanetary calamity now slumming on an unspecified primitive 'earth' planet-exert individual influence over smallish, relatively nearby regions and compete or war with one another for reasons that are not immediately revealed. The premise hooked me to the point where I'll be chasing the rest of the trilogy. After hearing that he had passed away, I decided it was necessary to give him a proper chance. I formed my opinion on Offutt's writing based on King Dragon and Ardor on Aros, which were both terrible. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series. Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.Īs an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.

Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. offutt, had his name in all lower-case letters. Andrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author.

Storm Season by Andrew J. Offutt] [cover ar...