City of Cain
by Kate Wilhelm
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Senator Roos' younger brother, a Vietnam veteran recovering from a serious head injury, becomes aware that the U.S. President and a select group of his closest advisors are building a top-secret underground complex in preparation for surviving and retaliating against nuclear warfare, though the rest of the population would be left to perish. As the secret cadre learns of his interest, they work to control his mind and growing telepathy before he can expose their plans.Tags
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Peter has come back from Vietnam with neurological damage—damage that might just give him extrasensory perceptions. When he begins to hear too much, his politician brother and old physics mentor get worried. They’re on the cusp of a huge project that could save human society—or end it. Wilhelm is particularly good at interpersonal details, and Peter is a well-developed and likeable main character.
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Kate Wilhelm was born Katie Gertrude Meredith in Dayton, Ohio on June 8, 1928. Her first book, More Bitter Than Death, was published in 1963. She wrote over 75 books in many genres including science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Her books included The Clone, the Barbara Holloway mystery series, and Welcome, Chaos. Her short stories and novellas show more won several Nebula Awards. Her novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang and her how-to book Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More From 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop won Hugo Awards. She and her husband, author and editor Damon Knight, trained numerous writers through their Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop and the annual Milford Writers' Conference. She died from respiratory failure on March 8, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1974
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