Michael Dennis McQuay (3 June 1949 – 27 May 1995
[) was an American ]science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
writer.The New York Times
/ref> His series include ''Mathew Swain'', ''Ramon and Morgan'', ''Executioner'', and ''SuperBolan''. The ''Book of Justice'' series he wrote as Jack Arnett. He also wrote the second of the Isaac Asimov's Robot City novels. His non-series novel ''Memories'' was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award
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in 1987.
McQuay taught creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma
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for more than ten years, and died of a heart attack at 45.[
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Mathew Swain novel series
*''Hot Time in Old Town'' (1981)
*''When Trouble Beckons'' (1981)
*''The Deadliest Show in Town'' (1982)
*''The Odds are Murder'' (1983)
Non-series novels
*'' Life-Keeper'' (1980)
*''Escape from New York
''Escape from New York'' is a 1981 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dea ...
(1981)''
*''State of Siege'' (1984)
*''Jitterbug'' (1984)
*''My Science Project'' (1985)
*''The MIA Ransom'' (1986)
*''Memories'' (1987)
*'' Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Suspicion'' (1987)
*''The Nexus'' (1988)
*''Pixel'' (1988)
*''Puppetmaster'' (1991)
*'' Richter 10'' (1996) (with Arthur C. Clarke)
References
External links
Bibliography with book cover gallery
at FantasticFiction.co.uk
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Jeff Arnett
at LC Authorities (2 records) an
at WorldCat
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
1949 births
1995 deaths
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
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