Robert Adams

Franklin Robert Adams (August 31, 1933 – January 4, 1990), who wrote as Robert Adams, was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, and formerly a career soldier. He is best known for his Horseclans books.

Robert Adams is known primarily for his post-apocalyptic fiction. His first book Coming of the Horseclans, published in 1975, was the first of his post-apocalyptic works that drew in readers, and launched his entire Horseclans series. The series is notable for having a detailed world and labyrinthine timeline (many of his Horseclans books are so cross-referenced that they make sense only when read in sequential order). The Horseclans series became his overall best-known works.While he never completed the series, he wrote 18 novels in the Horseclans series before his death.

From 1979 to 1989, Adams published several books as part of the Castaways in Time book series. They used some elements of the "Horseclans" novels (phonetic accents and themes of civilization versus barbarism). While not as popular as the Horseclans series, it has a cult following for its unique premises.

Beginning in 1985, Adams published several anthologies which he co-edited with a number of editors including Martin H. Greenberg, Pamela Crippen Adams, and Charles G. Waugh.

He later began publishing The Stairway to Forever book series in 1988, but only was able to complete two books in the series before his death.

Adams' style includes a violent, almost non-stop action focus, and a meticulous detail for matters both historical and military. As some of his series went on he went on digressions expounding on various topics from a conservative and libertarian viewpoint.

Adams died in Apopka, Florida on January 4, 1990.

Some of Adams's works, which ceased being printed after his death, have been reissued by Mundania Press.

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