Book description
"My lover, my protector, my friend, my doctor, my brother -
they're all killing me."
Peter Roos cannot help knowing the thoughts of those around him. A rare
physical condition has given him that power. Now he has
"heard" about the government's secret plan to give up control
of America to the military - to build an underground city for themselves
in the event of a nuclear attack. Unfortunately for Roos, the government
knows he knows. And the project's sponsors - including his senator
brother - have no choice.
They must
get him out of the way - permanently! 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.
