McKinney, Chris
Entry updated 13 May 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1973- ) US teacher and author, active in both capacities from before 2000. His first novel, Tattoo (1999), is nonfantastic. He is of sf interest for some of the stories assembled in The Lunacy Machine: Twisted Tales of Unfortunate Times (coll 2007), and for the Water City sequence beginning with Midnight, Water City (2021), set in a distant Near-Future Dystopian America. A painful partial recovery from the devastations of Climate Change, plus a near Asteroid strike, has generated a savage class society, with the privileged living in Keeps Under the Sea, and the great mass of Homo sapiens subject to induced mutation (see Mutants) into Zombies. The plot thickens, then hope dawns: the daughter of the noirish unnamed protagonist may have a plan to avert ultimate AI control over the wounded planet. [JC]
Chris McKinney
born Honolulu, Hawaii: 1973
works (selected)
series
Water City
- Midnight, Water City (New York: Soho Press/Soho Crime, 2021) [Water City: hb/]
- Eventide, Water City (New York: Soho Press/Soho Crime, 2023) [Water City: hb/]
- Sunset, Water City (New York: Soho Press/Soho Crime, 2023) [Water City: hb/]
collections and stories
- The Lunacy Machine: Twisted Tales of Unfortunate Times (Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, 2007) [coll: pb/]
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