SWIGART, Rob

SWIGART, Rob
   Working name of US writer and academic E. Robison Swigart (1941-), whose novels, from Little America (1977) on, have been FABULATIONS composed in a style which might be described as flamboyantly brisk; they include A.K.A.: A Cosmic Fable (1978), The Time Trip (1979) and The Book of Revelations(1981). Vector (1986) and its sequel Toxin (1989) deal, within a mystery frame, with the threat to Earth of a bio-engineered disease; and Venom (1991) similarly poses for its investigative protagonists the problem of adeadly poison. Perhaps more interestingly, Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval (1988) offers a complex future HISTORY of our planet over the next 100years, the intercourse and coming to reflective awareness of an AI named Homer, a returned astronaut's search through an apparently abandoned Earthfor some sign of humanity, speculations about GENETIC ENGINEERING, and an explanation of the nature of the route taken by humanity through the eponymous exit into a transcendental state.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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