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John Dalmas is an American author. Dalmas grew up in Minnesota. He lost his father in 1933, and after a series of foster homes, boarding houses and a stint on a rural Minnesota farm, Dalmas was drafted for the airborne. After parachute and advanced training in Georgia, he was sent to the Philippines where he worked first in construction and later as a medic.

Dalmas returned to the United States in 1946 to a variety of odd jobs, in logging and construction. In 1950 he gave up life as a logger and a barfly for college at Michigan State, receiving financial assistance from the the World War Two GI Bill. Having developed a love for the forest, he majored in forestry and in the summers returned to logging and fighting forest fires.

In college he studied creative writing and after college went to work for the U.S. Forest Service preparing and administering timber sales. He later returned to college for his Ph.D in ecology which led to a lengthy career in research in the mountains and high plateaus of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.

In 1968, Dalmas read what he considered a poor novel, Brak the Barbarian. Convinced he could do better, he began writing The Yngling. The story was purchased by John W. Campbell and serialized in Analog over 20 issues. It was published by Pyramid Books in 1971.

With a novel and two novelettes his only published work, Dalmas moved to Los Angeles to explore screenwriting. He didn't meet with much success, and worked odd jobs in moving and landscaping and eventually turned to free lance editing.

In 1985, Dalmas and wife Gail and his daughter and grandson moved to Spokane, Washington where his son lived. The family made it their home and Dalmas settled into writing. He moved to Ohio in 2005 and as of 2006 has had more than 30 novels published.

Novels

• The Varkaus Conspiracy (1983)
• Touch the Stars: Emergence (1983) (with Carl Martin)
• The Scroll of Man (1985)
• The Reality Matrix (1986)
• The Walkaway Clause (1986)
• The Playmasters (1987) (with Rod Martin)
• The General's President (1988)
• The Lantern of God (1989)
• Soldiers (2001)
• The Puppet Master (2001)
• The Second Coming (2004)

Yngling

• The Yngling (1971)
• Homecoming (1984)
• The Orc Wars: The Yngling Saga, Books I and II (omnibus) (1992)
• The Yngling and the Circle of Power (1992)
• The Yngling in Yamato (1994)

Fanglith

• Fanglith (1985)
• Return to Fanglith (1987)

Regiment

• The Regiment (1987)
• The White Regiment (1990)
• The Kalif's War (1991)
• The Regiment's War (1993)
• The Three-Cornered War (1998)

Lizard War

• The Lizard War (1989)
• The Helverti Invasion (2003)

Lion of Farside

• The Lion of Farside (1995)
• The Bavarian Gate (1997)
• The Lion Returns (1999)

External Links

• Official site
• John Dalmas at ISFDB.org

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