Join W. T. Quick in his science fiction masterpiece Dreams of God and Men: "She stepped closer and took a needle from a silver tray and pricked the tip of the girl's forefinger. A dot of blood welled there, round and shiny. The girl stared at the blood. 'That didn't hurt, did it?' The nurse shook her head. She felt the anesthetic take effect. Now her arm was numb as butchered meat below the elbow. 'Good. Pain is unnecessary to many things,' the Lady said. She put the needle down on the tray and picked up a scalpel. She looked at the blade and lowered her head. After a moment of prayer she raised the scalpel and began to work. The nurse screamed and screamed.
W.T. (William Thomas) Quick, a native of Indiana, lives in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. He is the author of twenty-eight novels, including the seminal cyberpunk cult hit DREAMS OF FLESH AND SAND (in which he invented The Matrix), the best-selling prehistoric thriller THE LAST MAMMOTH, a series of six novels entitled QUEST FOR TOMORROW co-authored with William Shatner, dozens of shorter works of fiction, and several screenplays for film and television.
Quick also writes under the pseudonyms QUENTIN THOMAS, SEAN KIERNAN, AND MARGARET ALLAN