Linda Evans (author)

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Linda Evans
BornLinda Ellen Evans
(1958-12-06) December 6, 1958 (age 65)
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Flagler College
Genre Science fiction, fantasy

Linda Ellen Evans (born December 6, 1958) [1] [2] is an American science fiction writer currently residing in Archer, Florida. She is an author of ten novels and four anthologies, as well as of several other co-authored novels. In 1996 her published novels had sold more than 100,000 copies. She has been published in English, German, and Russian, as well as hardback, paperback, and book-club editions. [2]

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Early life

Evans was born December 25, [3] 1958. She grew up in Crawfordsville, Indiana and attended Crawfordsville High School. [2] After graduation she attended Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. [2]

She began a career at the University of Florida in the 1980s, working in the university's College of Dentistry and its Gator Band office. During the 1990s, Evans was employed at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences as a writer in the department of Marketing and Communications and during the late 2000s in the Institute's International Programs office. [2] Her title was Coordinator Educational Media/Communications and International Focus Newsletter Editor. She was a writer, editor, webmaster and web graphic designer, photographer and print-document graphic designer, marketing and public relations specialist, event coordinator, and international-visitor tour organizer. Evans retired from the University of Florida after a 28-year career there.[ citation needed ]

Works

While many assume that Sleipnir was intended to be part of a series, this is not actually true. The novel was always intended to be a stand-alone work. A possible sequel has been contemplated.[ citation needed ] The ending is Heinleinian, in that it suggests action to come without actually intending for the story to continue. While some readers find this unsatisfying, the book did not, as is sometimes reported, end on a cliffhanger.[ citation needed ]

The second novel, Far Edge of Darkness, was intended as the first half of the story and it does end with a literal cliffhanger, meaning the story is unfinished and has been since 1996. The sequel is currently in outline stage.[ citation needed ]

Anthologies

Bolos 3: The Triumphant - Including novellas: "The Farmer's Wife", "Little Red Hen" (co-written with Robert R. Hollingsworth), and "Little Dog Gone"

Bolos 4: Last Stand (1996) - Includes Evans' fictional "historical essay" of humanity's contacts with alien races

Bolos 6: Cold Steel (2002) - Includes Evans' novella titled "Though Hell Should Bar the Way"

Worlds of Honor, in David Weber's Honor Harrington Universe. Includes Evans' novella "The Stray", which is a far-future murder mystery in which the sole witness is an alien incapable of producing verbal language

With David Weber

Includes 3 novellas by Evans (one in collaboration with Robert R. Hollingsworth) and David Weber wrote a fourth novella on his own; Evans' are "The Farmer's Wife", "Little Red Hen", and "Little Dog Gone"

Evans wrote the opening novella, "The Stray", while writing in Weber's Honor Harrington universe; Weber did not co-author that novella.

Hell's Gate series

With John Ringo

With Robert Asprin

All of the Time Scout series are by Evans from outlines by Asprin. Ripping Time and The Hous That Jack Built are one complete story. The other three stand alone as novels.

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Truly the Writer's Life". Gainesville Sun . November 25, 1996.
  3. ↑ Linda Evans
  4. ↑ Weber, David; Linda Evans (1995). Bolos: Book 3 The Triumphant. New York: Baen Books. ISBN   0-671-87683-X.
  5. ↑ Weber, David. Worlds of Honor .
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