WATERS, T(homas) A.

(1938-)

   US author who began writing sf with Love that Spy! (1968), a spoof TECHNOTHRILLER featuring a scientist named Niflheim who specializes in ultra-cold warfare. TAW's first sf of more orthodox interest was The Probability Pad (1970), a novel which concluded the trilogy begun inChester ANDERSON's The Butterfly Kid (1967) and continued in Michael KURLAND's The Unicorn Girl (1969). This is a lightweight RECURSIVE tale involving the 3 authors as characters in Greenwich Village, along with a good deal of alien-inspired body duplication. A countercultural ethos also inspired the grimmer Centerforce (1974), in which motorcycle dropouts and commune dwellers combine in opposition to a NEAR FUTURE police-state USA.

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