Quasar [Mass Market Paperback]

Jamil Nasir (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1995

Hired to care for the psychotic heiress Quasar Zant, psychiatric technician Ted Karmade is catapulted into the dizzying world of unrepressed ambition and exposed to deadly secrets that test his survival.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Nasir's first novel delivers brilliantly on the promise he showed as a winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. Theodore Karmade is a low-grade psych tech trained to fix the complicated psychoses of clients addled by drugs and cyberspace. His skills suddenly attract the interest of the world's most famous trillionaire socialite, Quasar Zant. If Quasar's sadistic and conniving aunt Nelda doesn't kill Karmade first, the uncanny similarity of his brain waves to Quasar's may hold the key to integrating the latter's six separate personalities. Quasar herself has other ideas, however, that include--besides escaping the clutches of Nelda's retinue of guards and androids using high-tech cloaking belts--drafting Karmade in a dangerous search for her parents, long presumed dead, in the city's deepest tunnels, inhabited by sewer tribes and mutants. Heavily influenced by the cyberpunk movement, Nasir's gritty vision of the future includes an Earth ravaged by biological warfare and a vividly rendered, multilevel, walled city. A dazzling achievement that heralds Nasir as a bright new voice in science fiction. Carl Hays

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Spectra (October 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553568868
• ISBN-13: 978-0553568868
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,870,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jamil Nasir was born in Chicago, Illinois, but spent much of his childhood in the Middle East, surviving two major wars. He returned to the U.S. in 1970, and started college at age 14, studying hard science, philosophy, psychology, history, and so many other things that he finally graduating from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors of General Studies degree. He also attended the University of Michigan Law School, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1983. Between stints at school he hitchhiked extensively around North America, working as a carpenter, fruit picker, warehouseman, gardener, shop clerk, and paralegal, among others. He currently works on large regulatory and litigation matters at a Washington, D.C. law firm, and lives in a suburb of Washington with his two daughters. He collects art, holds a Black Belt, 2nd Dan in Tae Kwon Do, and is a devotee of many subjects. His hobbies are photography and rampant metaphysical speculation. He is the winner of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, France's top science fiction award, and the Special Citation of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for best science fiction paperback published in the U.S. His website is www.jamilnasir.com.