MICHAEL SCOTT ROHAN

(1951-2018) Scottish publisher, editor and author with a degree in law, with Elsevier International Publishing 1973-1978 and since freelance. Following a fiction debut with “The Planetoid in the Case: A Matter of Unnatural Law” in the Oxford University SF Group’s Amateur Magazine SFinx #7 for January 1973, he began publishing sf professionally with “Fidei Defensor” in Andromeda 2 (anth 1977) edited by Peter Weston and “The Insect Tapes” in Aries 1 (anth 1979) edited by John Grant. Nonfiction books include a study of the Viking era, The Hammer and the Cross (1980 chap) with Allan Scott, and an introduction to home computing, First Byte (1983); he also reviewed for Opera Now. His first novel was Run to the Stars (dated 1982 but 1983), signed Mike Scott Rohan, a promising Scots-in-space Hard SF thriller featuring relativistic Weapons and an Alien message, with nasty Earth bureaucrats ready to attack their own space colony. Read more at the SFE…