QUICK, W.T.

QUICK, W.T.
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   US writer who began publishing sf with "Rest in Pieces" for IASFM in 1980, but who came to more general notice, after several 1980s stories in ASF, with the Dreams sequence of sf adventures: Dreams of Flesh and Sand (1988), Dreams of Gods and Men (1989) and Singularities (1990). Thetales are clear-cut and taut, but the huge corporations dominated by AIs were unsurprising fare for readers familiar with the rapid explosion of the CYBERPUNK subgenre. Yesterday's Pawn (1989), also an adventure tale, takes its adolescent protagonist through space and time as he attempts to decipher the importance of an ancient artefact; but Systems (1989) returns to cyberpunk territory in the fast-paced story of a "data hunter" simultaneously grieving for his pregnant wife and solving the mysteries surrounding her murder.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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