FORMAN, James D(ouglas)

(1932-)

   US writer whose sf novels are for a young-adult audience. They began with Call Back Yesterday (1981) and its sequel, Doomsday Plus Twelve (1984), a studiedly and effectively admonitory presentation of nuclearHOLOCAUST as an event having little to do - contra much wish-fulfilment SURVIVALIST FICTION - with post-Bomb opportunities for self-fulfilment. In the first volume, a teenaged US girl's flirtation in the Middle East sets off, through a chain of stupidities, the final war; in the second, 12 years later, a young girl persuades the remnants of the US Army not to try to attack a benevolent Japan, which has had nothing to do with the war. Cry Havoc (1988), somewhat less interestingly, features the creation ofkiller dogs through GENETIC ENGINEERING gone awry.

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