![]() ![]() Ted’s life is humdrum and mundane, until he gets a summons to the Sentrex Complex, the highest, largest, edifice in the city, and the home of the unimaginably wealthy ZantCorp. Protagonist Ted Karmade is a ‘psychiatric technician’, who uses modified headsets to electronically jack in to the minds of the afflicted and deliver necessary counseling. ![]() The lower levels of the city are decrepit slums, inhabited by mutants and outcasts, permanently forbidden to ascend to the city resting above their warrens. Humanity has retreated to the confines of an enormous city, where they lived crammed into tiny apartments, breathing filtered air. The story is set in a near-future earth where, in the aftermath of global war, much of the surface is an uninhabited wasteland, poisoned by biowarfare pathogens and toxins. ‘Quasar’ was author Nasir’s first novel, and represents a third-generation cyberpunk tale. 'Quasar' (207 pp) was issued by Bantam Spectra in November, 1995. ![]()
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