Book description
John Smith began that morning a perfectly healthy man, but before he
knows it time freezes during his morning staff meeting and he thinks
he's dying. Has his body stopped or has everything around him? When the
clock begins to click again, he is trapped in a parallel universe, where
he is "greeted" by Joan of Arc and Robin Hood. Trapped in a
world inhabited by only Quads and survivors of biological warfare, John
becomes entangled in a battle between God or the Devil, Elvis and
Napoleon. The fate of the world rests on John putting together the
pieces of a cosmic puzzle before everyone in Quad world is forever
confined to Hell. Can he discover the secrets of Quad in time? Robert
A. Metzger has spent his entire life in the Los Angeles area, including
his stint at UCLA where he received a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering,
and his current stint at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu
where he grows thin film materials for high speed transistors by a
process called Molecular Beam Epitaxy. His short stories have appeared
in Aboriginal SF and Weird Tales, and he writes a science column called
"What If?" which appears in Aboriginal SF. He lives with no
cute pets, has no endearing hobbies, and hates yogurt with a passion
that most people reserve for ax-murderers. He reads supermarket
tabloids, refuses to wash his car, and has managed to convince several
people that lettuce is his favorite food. He sold PICOVERSE, a major
science fiction novel, to Berkley Publishers.
