Michael Dennis McQuay était un auteur américain de romans de science-fiction. Son œuvre se concentrait souvent sur des intrigues palpitantes et des mondes vastes. McQuay était connu pour sa capacité à créer des personnages complexes et des récits captivants qui plongent le lecteur dans l'histoire. Son écriture se distingue par son rythme dynamique et ses éléments technologiques complexes.
Memories isgy and brilliant ideas. It tells of David Wolf, a man from present-day Oklahoma, and Silv, an inhabitant of a future world in ruins. Together, they must travel through time to stop a madman whose insane actions canc of reality in shreds.
When Denny Stiller, a cynical reporter, breaks the story of Amy Kyle, a young autistic girl in Las Vegas who can literally work miracles, the world scrambles to either exploit the gifted girl or destroy her.
Lewis Crane was a child when the devasting Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family. Now, thirty years later, Crane is the world's leading seismologist, with a burning hatred for quakes. Determined to protect people from his parents' fate, he has developed a unique theory of earthquake prediction - but in a world run by Chinese-controlled corporations and an America split more radically than ever along racist and religious lines, there are plenty of people who don't want him to succeed. Then it happens: a massive rolling and shaking that promises to register 8.5 on the Richter scale. And only Crane knows an even bigger 'big one' is coming: an incredible Richter 10 that will bring unimaginable destruction. He knows where. He knows when. He even knows how to stop it. But will anyone - can anyone - believe him?
Der Roman zu John Carpenters Kino-Hit DIE KLAPPERSCHLANGE. Manhattan ist rundum abgeriegelt und zu einem riesigen Gefängnis umfunktioniert worden, aus dem ein Ausbrechen unmöglich ist. Als das Flugzeug des amerikanischen Präsidenten von Terroristen entführt wird und in Manhattan notlanden muß, holt man Snake Plissken, die Klapperschlange. Er hat vierundzwanzig Stunden Zeit, den Präsidenten aus der Gewalt der Verbrecher zu befreien. Der Polizeichef von New York hat sich eine Teufelei ausgedacht: Kehrt Snake Plissken innerhalb der gesetzten Frist nicht mit dem Präsidenten zurück, explodieren in Snakes Körper zwei winzige Sprengkapseln Deutsche Erstveröffentlichumg
In the twenty-second century the moon has been colonised and the first people are living on Mars. When a meteor is spotted heading for Earth, it seems certain that disaster will strike. Based on a short story which appeared in T̀ime' magazine.
