Ramirez, David
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Philippine biologist, computer scientist and author whose sf novel, The Forever Watch (2014), is set in a Generation Starship, the Noah, several centuries en route to its destination (see Colonization of Other Worlds); the protagonist – City Planner Hana Dempsey, who has been Genetically Engineered so that she can remain in Telepathic rapport with the ship Computers – must confront a serial killer, the mystery of the long mission's ultimate purpose, Monsters from the Id-like bowels of the ship, the anguish of dealing with Memory-Edited intimates, and much else. [JC]
David Ramirez
born Manilla, Philippines
works
- The Forever Watch (New York: St Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) [hb/Alan Brooks]
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