# Any Brian Callison fans?

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**Created:** [August 20, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-brian-callison-fans/196383 "2003-08-20T05:46:16Z")
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#### Post date: [August 20, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-brian-callison-fans/196383/1 "2003-08-20T05:46:16Z")

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Anyone who is a fan of nautical adventures in the Alastair MacLean/Nicholas Montserrat/C.S. Forrester vein has hopefully already discovered Brian Callison. I’ve eagerly read books like The Auriga Madness , The Sextant, and A Flock of Ships.

Lately, Callison seems to have been reduced to producing middling sequels or pale copies of his earlier books (e.g. Trapp’s Peace and A Plague of Merchantmen).

Has anyone found any outstanding recent Callison, or any other other new great writers of nautical fiction?