Book description
Someone is thinking about Margaret. "I wondered about Margaret,
and what she would do next. I didn't care unless she went the route of
drugs They make her try and get at me sometimes, and that can be
bothersome. She is so terribly afraid of me." Who so casually draws
Margaret to the brink of hysteria - then, just as casually, tries to
walk away? Her subconsciousness does, when it becomes a living,
breathing personality with an ego all its own - setting the stage for a
remarkable transformation scarcely envisioned by the science of man.
Kate Wilhelm (1928 - ) Working name of the US writer Katie Gertrude
Meridith Wilhelm Knight, born in Ohio in 1928. She started publishing SF
in 1956 with 'The Pint-Sized Genie' for Fantastic, and continued for
some time with relatively straightforward genre stories; it was not
until the late 1960s that she began to release the mature stories which
have made her reputation as one of the 20th century's finest SF writers.
She was married to noted author and critic Damon Knight and together
they have had a profound influence beyond their writing, through the
Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference and its offshoot, in which
she was directly involved, the Clarion Science Fiction Writers'
Workshop. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with Where Late the
Sweet Birds Sang, and has won the Nebula Award three times. Kate Wilhelm
lives in Oregon, USA, and still hosts writing workshops.
