Book description
They came to his deathbed. Four dutiful children. Each the victim of a
different mother. Each mother the victim of a tragic accident, unsolved
murder, mysterious disappearance. As he sank away they glowered their
hatred. It was a hatred he expected, and his revenge was well-planned.
He left a multimillion dollar legacy, bearing a ghoulish price tag. They
could pay with their sanity, or their psyches, or their souls, they
would be part of an experiment., something to do with brain waves. It
would be a great service to science, they were told. Just one last
little joke on his kids, and they swore they could hear him laughing all
the way to hell. 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.
