White, Steve
Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of US army officer and author Robert McGarvey (1948- ), most of whose work is Space Opera, often employing Military SF plots, and usually arrayed in series. His first sequence, the Starfire series – partially written with David Weber, who had developed Starfire, the Wargame to which it is Tied, and partially with other collaborators – begins with Insurrection (1990) with David Weber [for further volumes see Checklist below]. Solo series include the Disinherited sequence beginning with The Disinherited (1993), where a Terraforming team, frustrated by the anti-Technology bias of the government back on Earth, freelances to the stars, heavily weaponed, the series becoming an Alternate World drama; the Prince of Sunset sequence beginning with Prince of Sunset (1998), set in the dusk of a Galactic Empire threatened by Posthumans; the Lokaran sequence beginning with Eagle Against the Stars (2000), in which an Alien Invasion runs up against human guerrillas; and the Jason Thanou sequence beginning with Blood of the Heroes (2006), whose hero, a bodyguard with military inclinations, shepherds customers via Time Travel into eras that turn out to be dangerous. His singletons tend to run ingenious changes on the same template: freelance adventurers thwart bureaucrats and bureaucracies; the worlds of Space Opera are arenas. [JC]
Robert McGarvey
born Linden, New Jersey: 13 December 1948
works
series
Starfire
- Insurrection (New York: Baen Books, 1990) with David Weber [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Paul Alexander]
- Crusade (New York: Baen Books, 1992) with David Weber [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Paul Alexander]
- In Death Ground (New York: Baen Books, 1997) with David Weber [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/David Mattingly]
- The Stars at War (New York: Baen Books, 2004) with David Weber [omni of the above two: tie to Starfire: Starfire: hb/David Mattingly]
- The Shiva Option (New York: Baen Books, 2002) with David Weber [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/David Mattingly]
- The Stars at War II (New York: Baen Books, 2005) with David Weber [omni of the above plus revised text of Insurrection above: tie to Starfire: Starfire: hb/David Mattingly]
- Exodus (New York: Baen Books, 2007) with Shirley Meier [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Clyde Caldwell]
- Extremis (New York: Baen Books, 2011) with Charles E Gannon [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Kurt Miller]
- Imperative (New York: Baen Books, 2016) with Charles E Gannon [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Dave Seeley]
- Oblivion (New York: Baen Books, 2018) with Charles E Gannon [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Dave Seeley]
Disinherited
- The Disinherited (New York: Baen Books, 1993) [Disinherited: pb/Paul Alexander]
- Legacy (New York: Baen Books, 1995) [Disinherited: pb/Larry Elmore]
- Debt of Ages (New York: Baen Books, 1995) [Disinherited: pb/Stephen Hickman]
Prince of Sunset
- Prince of Sunset (New York: Baen Books, 1998) [Prince of Sunset: pb/Gary Ruddell]
- Emperor of Dawn (New York: Baen Books, 1999) [Prince of Sunset: pb/Larry Elmore]
Lokaran
- Eagle Against the Stars (New York: Baen Books, 2000) [Lokaran: pb/Stephen Hickman]
- Wolf among the Stars (New York: Baen Books, 2011) [Lokaran: hb/Kurt Miller]
Jason Thanou
- Blood of the Heroes (New York: Baen Books, 2006) [Jason Thanou: hb/Bob Eggleton]
- Sunset of the Gods (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [Jason Thanou: pb/Kurt Miller]
- Pirates of the Timestream (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [Jason Thanou: pb/Don Maitz]
- Ghosts of Time (New York: Baen Books, 2014) [Jason Thanou: pb/Don Maitz]
- Soldiers Out of Time (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [Jason Thanou: pb/Don Maitz]
- Gods of Dawn (New York: Baen Books, 2017) [Jason Thanou: pb/Don Maitz]
individual titles
- Forge of the Titans (New York: Baen Books, 2003) [hb/David Mattingly]
- Demon's Gate (New York: Baen Books, 2004) [hb/Clyde Caldwell]
- The Prometheus Project (New York: Baen Books, 2005) [hb/Bob Eggleton]
- Saint Antony's Fire (New York: Baen Books, 2008) [hb/Stephen Hickman]
- Her Majesty's American (New York: Baen Books, 2008) [hb/Dominic Harman]
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