LAIDLAW, Marc

LAIDLAW, Marc
(1960-)
   US writer who began publishing work of genre interest with "A Hiss of Dragon" with Gregory BENFORD for Omni in 1978. Though he published solo stories with some frequency in the 1980s, his best known short work is perhaps the group of mathematically oriented tales written with Rudy RUCKER, such as "Chaos Surfari" (1989). ML's first novel, Dad's Nuke(1985), is a SATIRE of suburban life and Christian fundamentalism set in a NEAR FUTURE community effectively sealed off from the rest of the disintegrating USA; ritual technological fixes for anxiety include having a personal nuclear power plant and a baby adapted (GENETIC ENGINEERING) to recycle the wastes into her lead-lined diapers. ML's second novel, the amusing Neon Lotus (1988), follows the consequences of the REINCARNATION of a Tibetan Buddhist sage as a young girl in a highly technologized USA. Kalifornia (1993) is a further satire, and The Orchid Eater (1994) isassociational.
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