Napier, Bill
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Scottish astronomer and author William M Napier (1940- ), whose several Technothrillers teasingly approach genuine sf patterns of cognition, but generally baulk from taking them as the burden of the tales told; the titles closest to full sf include Nemesis (1998) and The Lure (2002), the former featuring a threatened US Asteroid impact with devious political complications, while the latter invokes Alien attempts to establish Communication with humans. The Furies (2009) presumes that Nazi German scientists were responsible for the Invention of a kind of doomsday Weapon, which must be dismantled pronto in Arizona, where it has crashed, decades later. [JC/DRL]
William M Napier
born Perth, Scotland: 29 June 1940
works (selected)
- Nemesis (London: Headline Feature, 1998) [hb/Lee Gibbons]
- Revelation (London: Headline Feature, 2000) [hb/]
- The Lure (London: Headline Book Publishing, 2002) [pb/Lee Gibbons]
- The Furies (New York: St Martin's Paperbacks, 2009) [pb/]
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