Welcome to the Blackguard Pages!

The Blackguard was a space opera written in episodic style from 1983-1988.  It has seen print in various forms as part of the '80s mini-zine rage.

It is a product of its time, written by a fledgling writer weaned on the creative works of Douglas Adams, Peter O'Donnell, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas & Edgar Rice Burroughs to mention but a few.  The stories were a humble attempt to fill a gap in science fiction writing of the day: a good space opera with a strong female protagonist.

They were recently unearthed, with pages missing, hopelessly riffled with other stories wedged in between their leafs.  They remain a testament to the possibility that the '80s weren't as heinous as originally believed (or may be more sadly only confirmation of that belief.)

But it is with youthful optimism that the former is true that they are collected, edited and arranged here for the entertainment of the Reader. 

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Created: February 12, 1999

Last modified:  June 29, 2002