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From: wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge)
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Subject: Re: "M.A. Foster - I like him. Anyone else?"
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Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 00:34:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  9 00:34:31 1984
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Summary: 

> FROM : mwnorman@watrose (Mike Norman - student-at-large; U of Waterloo)
>  I'd like to know if anyone out there in net-land has heard of a SF
>  author by the name of M.A. Foster?  He/she (I don't know which) did
>  "Warriors of Dawn", "Game Players of Zan", "Waves" ... etc
> 
>  In my opinion, this person is just a fantastic writer.  It seems to me
>  that he (in the generic-use-mode) must have a very solid grounding in
>  social pyschology AND math.  He likes most to play with different societies 
>  which he constructs with great detail.  I don't mean that there is alot of
>  volume there, its just that what he presents is so believable.  The
>  characters are interesting as well.  He usually doesn't draw upon the usual
>  North-American cultures when he does the background history of these
>  people (or planets).  Its quite refreshing to see something very 
>  new and very good at the same time.
>
> 	Mike Norman (student-at-large - a little too large right now,
> 					I've got to lose some weight.
> 					Anyone out there want some?
> 					Going cheap!
>         University of Waterloo,
> 	Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
> 	...allegra!watmath!watrose!mwnorman - the allegra machine is
> 	the only one that I know of that gets here.


I haven't seen any work by M.A.Foster, but from the Science Fiction
Encyclopedia (1977), here is some more information:

FOSTER, M(ICHAEL) A(NTHONY) (1939-): American writer, former data systems
analyst and ICBM launch crew commander for the American Air Force...MAF's
slow but detailed constuction of the Ier culture and language...marks his
series out as one of potential importance to the genre.

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