McCARTHY, Wil

McCARTHY, Wil
   Working name of US writer William Terence McCarthy (1966-) who began publishing sf with "What I Did with the OTV Grissom" forAboriginal in 1990; the first of the 2 stories assembled in Dirtyside Down/C-Minor (coll1991 chap dos) with Gregory R.Hyde is by WMcC. In his first novel, Aggressor Six (1994), 34th century humanity is confronted by an implacable alien race which wages interstellar war against us, and is only defeated in the end due to discoveries made by a team of humans who have been trained to think like the enemy. The action is fast and clean, though not entirely unpredictable.
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