Blood Lines

Burkett Jr., William R

ISBN 10: 0061058238 / ISBN 13: 9780061058233

Editore: Harper Voyager, 1998

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Riassunto:

The human narrator and his long-time friend Ball, an all- brain cyborg, journey to the planet Ptolemy for a perilous ritual contest--a renga competition--in which first prize is an extraordinary alien life-form and losers receive Death. Original.

Informazioni sull?autore: William R. Burkett, Jr., 54, is a native of Georgia who grew up in Neptune Florida, and began writing when at age fourteen he given an ancient Smith-Coronatypewriter. His first science-fiction novel, Sleeping Planet, was published in ANA-LOG magazinewhen he was 20, and subsequently published in hardcover and paperback in the U.S. and abroad.

On the strength of being a publishedwriter, he was promoted to reporter at the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida, beginning a career in journalism which led him from the Bahamas to Pennsylvania to the state of Washington. He continued to write creatively, and had some fiction and nonfiction magazine sales. But he found journalism a beguiling mistress, due to the twin incentives of a steady paycheck and seeing his byline on page one.

In 1978 he left journalism for public relations, and was a public informationofficer for three different state agencies in Arizona and Washington state. He edited a monthly tabloid for the Arizona Game and Fish department, which "required" him to spend days on end out in the wilds with a gun or fishing rod, doing research. In Washington, he headed up a negotiating team which settled major litigation between the state and local Indian tribes over tribal sales of untaxed liquor. And he won a Clio, a Telly, and other writting awards for TV commercials which promoted traffic safety.

He left state service 1993 and returned to full-time fiction writing. Bloodsport, his second science-fiction novel, was published in 1998 by HarperPrism. He has two grown children, Beau and Heather. He and his wife, Wanda, live in the small logging community of Buckley, Washington, with a cranky cat and a gun-shy Lab retriever.

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Titolo: Blood Lines
Casa editrice: Harper Voyager
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: mass_market
Condizione: Very Good