Quasar

Jamil Nasir

ISBN 10: 0553568868 / ISBN 13: 9780553568868

Published by Spectra, 1995

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0553568868I3N00

Synopsis:

Hired to care for the psychotic heiress Quasar Zant, psychiatric technician Ted Karmade is catapulted into the dizzying world of unrepressed ambition and exposed to deadly secrets that test his survival. Original.

Reviews: Nasir's first novel delivers brilliantly on the promise he showed as a winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. Theodore Karmade is a low-grade psych tech trained to fix the complicated psychoses of clients addled by drugs and cyberspace. His skills suddenly attract the interest of the world's most famous trillionaire socialite, Quasar Zant. If Quasar's sadistic and conniving aunt Nelda doesn't kill Karmade first, the uncanny similarity of his brain waves to Quasar's may hold the key to integrating the latter's six separate personalities. Quasar herself has other ideas, however, that include--besides escaping the clutches of Nelda's retinue of guards and androids using high-tech cloaking belts--drafting Karmade in a dangerous search for her parents, long presumed dead, in the city's deepest tunnels, inhabited by sewer tribes and mutants. Heavily influenced by the cyberpunk movement, Nasir's gritty vision of the future includes an Earth ravaged by biological warfare and a vividly rendered, multilevel, walled city. A dazzling achievement that heralds Nasir as a bright new voice in science fiction. Carl Hays

Bibliographic Details

Title: Quasar
Publisher: Spectra
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Unknown
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket