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(1932- )
Dennis L. McKiernan was born April 4, 1932, in Moberly, Missouri, where he lived until age eighteen, when he joined the U.S. Air Force and served four years spanning the Korean War. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri in 1958 and an M.S. in the same field from Duke University in 1964. He spent thirty-one years as one of the AT&T Bell Laboratories whiz kids in research and development before changing careers to be a full-time writer. Read excerpts from Dennis L. McKiernan’s novels, and answers to questions from readers, at his website.
City of Jade by Dennis L. McKiernan
I hate to say it, because I have always liked the world of Mithgar, and most of the novels by Dennis L. McKiernan, but City of Jade is a real snooze-fest. Characters travel around, there are two battle scenes, and many characters nearly die, but are saved rather quickly. City of Jade lacks any real suspense. It’s Lord of the Rings without the trip to Mordor, or George R.R.
John Ottinger (guest)´s rating: 2 | Dennis L. McKiernan | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Once Upon a Winter’s Night by Dennis L. McKiernan
have a thing for retold fairy tales. There was a time when I had even more of a thing for retold fairy tales. I was obsessed. I combed bookstores for anything claiming to be a retelling of this or that. I was especially interested in treatments of the lesser-known tales, and one of those lesser-known tales was “East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon.”
When I learned of Once Upon a Winter’s Night, I was ecstatic.
Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 2 | Dennis L. McKiernan | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Previous SFF Author: Skye McKenna
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