RUSE, Gary Alan

(1946-)

   US writer who began publishing sf with "Nanda" for ASF in 1972. Houndstooth (1975) features a spy dog with a computer implant that allows its human handlers to see through its eyes; The Gods of Cerus Major (1982), though perhaps somewhat mechanical in its ruthless piling-up ofcrises, demonstrates an intimate sense of genre device as the protagonist, on a test flight that goes wrong, encounters a variety of strangenesses on an unexplored planet. Morlac: The Quest of the Green Magician (1986) is fantasy. Death Hunt on a Dying Planet (1988), despite its inflamed title, rather soberly depicts the experiences of a woman who, awakened from SUSPENDED ANIMATION after 700 years, must make sense of a world whosecultures are in terminal dispute.

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   Other works: A Game of Titans (1976), both associational.