Happy birthday to novelist and short story writer Dave Smeds
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Dave Smeds, photographed at Westercon 64 in the Fairmont San Jose Hotel on Saturday, 2 July 2011 (Wikimedia Commons)
The Nebula
Award-nominated writer Dave Smeds has authored six novels including
the two volume War of The Dragon series (The
Sorcery Within and The Schemes of Dragons),
the original X-Men novel The Law of the
Jungle, and Piper in the Night.
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His numerous short
stories have been collected in Earthly Pleasures (as Reed
Manning), EMBRACING THE STARLIGHT, and Raiding the
Hoard of Enchantment: Seven Tales of High
Fantasy.
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All of us at Tachyon wish the fantastic Dave, a happy birthday.
For more information about EMBRACING THE STARLIGHT, visit the Tachyon page.