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{{short description|American science fiction author (born 1957)}}
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| birth_place = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], U.S.
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| occupation  = Author
| spouse      = Eleanore Fox
| alma_mater  = [[Boston University]]
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'''Roger MacBride Allen''' (born September 26, 1957) is an American [[science fiction author]]. He was born in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], and grew up outside of [[Washington, D.C.]], graduating from Walt Whitman High School.<ref name="foxacre"/> He graduated from [[Boston University]] in 1979. His father was American historian and author [[Thomas B. Allen (author)|Thomas B. Allen]].<ref name="obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-allen&pid=191012249|title= Thomas Allen|newspaper=The Washington Post|accessdate= 2019-10-19}}</ref>

==Background==
Allen's family moved to [[Bethesda, Maryland]], in 1966, when he was nine years old.  He earned a degree in journalism from Boston University, after-which he returned to suburban Washington DC.<ref name="foxacre">{{cite web| url = http://www.foxacre.com/rma/essays/Bio.htm|work =foxacre.com | title = Biography | year = 2002}}</ref>

== Works==
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===''Allies and Aliens''===
*''Allies and Aliens'' (1995) collects ''The Torch of Honor'' and ''Rogue Powers''
**''The Torch of Honor'' (1985)
**''Rogue Powers'' (1986)

===''Hunted Earth''===
*''[[The Ring of Charon]]'' (1990)
*''[[The Shattered Sphere]]'' (1994)
*''[[The Falling World]]'' (TBA)

===''Caliban''===
*''[[Isaac Asimov's Caliban]]'' (1993)
*''[[Isaac Asimov's Inferno]]'' (1994)
*''[[Isaac Asimov's Utopia]]'' (1996)

===''Chronicles of Solace''===
*''[[The Depths of Time]]'' (2000)
*''[[The Ocean of Years]]'' (2002)
*''[[The Shores of Tomorrow]]'' (2003)

===''BSI Starside''===
*''[[BSI Starside: The Cause of Death]]'' (2006)
*''[[BSI Starside: Death Sentence]]'' (2007)
*''[[BSI Starside: Final Inquiries]]'' (2008)

===''Corellian'' (Star Wars)===
*''[[Star Wars: Ambush at Corellia]]'' (1995)
*''[[Star Wars: Assault at Selonia]]'' (1995)
*''[[Star Wars: Showdown at Centerpoint]]'' (1995)

===Stand-alone novels===
*''[[Orphan of Creation]]'' (1988)
*''[[Farside Cannon]]'' (1988)
*''[[The War Machine|The War Machine: Crisis of Empire III]]'' (1989), with [[David Drake]]
*''Supernova'' (1991), with [[Eric Kotani]]
*''[[The Modular Man]]'' (1992), accompanying the novel is an essay by [[Isaac Asimov]] "Intelligent Robots and Cybernetic Organisms."

===Historical===
*''Time Capsule: The Book of Record'' (2010) with [[Thomas B. Allen (author)|Thomas B. Allen]]
*''Mr. Lincoln's High Tech War'' (2008) with Thomas B. Allen

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website}}
*{{ISFDB name|name=Roger MacBride Allen}}

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