MacBride, Stuart B
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Scottish author, mostly of thrillers from 2005 as Stuart MacBride, and of an sf thriller, Halfhead (2009), set in a moderately distant Near Future Glasgow a decade after violent social upheavals, caused by excesses of Virtual Reality, have killed millions; in the Dystopian aftermath of this, criminals (see Crime and Punishment) are lobotomized, mutilated, transformed into workers. A plot involving a mutilated but still functional serial killer then takes over centre stage. [JC]
Stuart B MacBride
born Dumbarton, Scotland
works
- Halfhead (London: HarperCollins, 2009) [pb/]
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