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Leo Frankowski (born February 13, 1943, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American writer of science fiction novels. He is now a resident of Russia, where he lives with his wife and adopted teenage daughter.
   Frankowski is of Polish descent.

Political views

Frankowski has expressed open hostility for "liberals" and "feminists," admitting that anyone who falls into these categories will be unlikely to enjoy his fiction. According to the author, most of his fans consist of "males with military and technical backgrounds," while he likewise claims his detractors consist of "feminists, liberals, and homosexuals."

His writings

Cross-Time Engineer series

The Conrad Stargard series, in which a twentieth-century engineer travels back in time to thirteenth-century Poland. It consists of the following books:
  • The Cross Time Engineer In this book Twentieth Century Polish Engineer Conrad Schwartz is accidentally and mysteriously dumped in Thirteenth Century Poland. He becomes friendly with the saintly Father Ignacy, who convinces him he's indeed in an earlier era. He meets a number of minor characters who figure in later books, such as the boatman Tadaos, and winds up working for Count Lambert, a relative of the Duke who rules over much of Poland.
  • The High Tech Knight Conrad, now using the name Stargard because his correct name sounds too German, works to bring Poland into some advanced technology in order to meet the immanent threat of the 1241 Mongol invasion.
  • The Radiant Warrior Training creates an army of 150,000 trained soldiers. Twnetieth Century techniques disturb Thirteenth Century society.
  • The Flying Warlord Count Lambert forces Conrad to divert his efforts into creating an air force. The Mongols invade, with tens of thousands dead on all sides.
  • Lord Conrad's Lady Lady Francine, a French woman known as one of the two most beautiful women in Poland (the other lives with Conrad, but as an heretical Moslem can't or won't marry him) maneuvers Conrad into marrying her.
  • Conrad's Quest For Rubber Conrad sends an expedition to South America, with disastrous effects due to unique diseases.
  • Conrad's Time Machine Conrad doesn't appear in this. This book explains the invention of the time machine and the people who control its use, incidentally providing explanations for their occasional interference in Conrad's behalf.
  • Lord Conrad's Crusade
Rubber and Time Machine feature the same setting and some of the same characters, but are not 'main sequence' books.
   Two omnibus editions of this series have been published by Baen Books:
  • Conrad Stargard: Radiant Warrior, containing The Cross-time Engineer, The High Tech Knight and The Radiant Warrior.
  • Conrad's Lady, containing The Flying Warlord, Lord Conrad's Lady and Conrad's Quest for Rubber.

    Other Books

    A second series, partially in collaboration with Dave Grossman includes the books:
  • A Boy and his Tank
  • The War With Earth (with Dave Grossman)
  • Kren of the Mitchegai (with Dave Grossman) Again in collaboration with Dave Grossman he's started a third series:
  • The Two Space War (with Dave Grossman)
  • The Guns of Two Space (Forthcoming) (with Dave Grossman) Other, stand-alone books written by Frankowski include:
  • Fata Morgana (1999) (ISBN 0-671-57876-6)
  • Copernick's Rebellion Frankowski's most recent work has again featured Conrad Stargard. He has written Lord Conrad's Crusade in collaboration with Rodger Olsen, and has promised another Stargard book which will conclude the series.

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