O'Brien, Tim
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1946- ) US author best known for anguished accounts of the Vietnam War, including the novel Going After Cacciato (1978); of sf interest is The Nuclear Age (1985), set in a Near Future America in 1995 anxiety-ridden by anticipations of nuclear war. The protagonist, an ex-paramilitary radical now middle-aged, goes to ground, where he digs a useless bomb shelter against the coming Holocaust. [JC]
William Timothy O'Brien
born Austin, Minnesota: 1 October 1946
works
- The Nuclear Age (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1985) [hb/]
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