SAKERS, Don

SAKERS, Don
(1958-)
   US writer who began publishing sf with "Gamester" for Questar in 1981; his short work appeared in various magazines through the 1980s. His first sf novel, The Leaves of October (fixup 1988), competently presents a vision of ALIENS in the shape of sentient trees, who help humanity through the evolutionary crisis of the current era. Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three * (anth 1990), which DS ed and to which hecontributed 2 stories, is a SHARED-WORLD anthology based on a filksong by Leslie Fish. (Filksongs are songs composed by members of the sf community,usually for performance at CONVENTIONS.)
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