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M.A. Foster

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in Greensboro, North Carolina, The United States

July 02, 1939

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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US writer, former data-systems analyst and sequentially a Russian linguist and ICBM launch-crew commander to the US Air Force; he is also a semiprofessional photographer. After some poetry, released privately as Shards from Byzantium (coll 1969 chap) and The Vaseline Dreams of Hundifer Jones (coll 1970 chap), he began to publish sf with the ambitious Ler trilogy about a race of Supermen created by Genetic Engineering whose social structure is built around a form of line marriage here called a braid.

The Gameplayers of Zan (1977), a very long novel formally constructed on the model of an Elizabethan tragedy, describes a period of climactic tension between th ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 893 ratings · 86 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Gameplayers of Zan (Ler, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1977 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warriors of Dawn (Ler, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1975 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of the Ler (Ler, #1-3) 4.10 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Morphodite (Transformer, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day of the Klesh (Ler, #3) 3.63 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Transformer Trilogy (Transformer, #1-3) 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transformer (Transformer, #2) 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waves 3.49 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preserver (Transformer, #3) 3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Owl Time 3.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The real beginnings of a journey occur long before the act of physical departure. —Enosis ton Barbaron”
― M.A. Foster, The Book of the Ler

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“(Harper) "Sometimes life just sucks and we wonder 'why me'? But trust me, the day will come when you wake up and it doesn't hurt so much." ~ Jaybird”
― M.A. Foster

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“We do what we can, with such style as we can muster.”
― M.A. Foster, The Book of the Ler

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