Page, Thomas
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1942- ) US author whose first novel was The Hephaestus Plague (1973), filmed as Bug (1975), a tale which starts strongly, with vivid descriptions of the effect of an irruption from Underground of a new species of beetle capable of emitting fire, but which weakens when it begins to deal with a Scientist who becomes overfascinated with these beetles, which seem to comprise a Hive Mind. His later novels – The Spirit (1977), about the appearance of an ominous Bigfoot in northern Canada, Sigmet Active (1978), a Disaster novel, and The Man Who Would Not Die: An Unusual Ghost Story (1981) – were borderline sf. [JC]
Thomas Walker Page IV
born Washington, District of Columbia: 16 July 1942
works
- The Hephaestus Plague (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1973) [hb/]
- The Spirit (New York: Rawson Associates, 1977) [hb/]
- Sigmet Active (New York: Times Books, 1978) [hb/]
- The Man Who Would Not Die: An Unusual Ghost Story (New York: Putnam Publishing Group/Seaview Books, 1981) [hb/]
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