Dreamcatcher theodore roszak biography

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() US historian – latterly professor emeritus of history at California State University, until his death – and author of several works of cultural criticism, most famously The Making of a Counter Culture () and also including The Cult of Information (), which is highly sceptical about the contemporary boom in Information Theory.

He began writing sf with Bugs (), in which a frightened child Telepath causes bugs to infiltrate Computer systems and thereafter to emerge – in literal, solid form – to eat people. A second novel, Dreamwatcher (), concerning Psi Powers, blends fantasy and sf, as does the remarkable Flicker () which, in a manner evocative of Steve Erickson's blackly surreal version of film America in Days Between Stations (), describes Subliminal horrors inserted by a cult of Secret Masters into s and s films made by a mysterious forgotten German director – horrors which themselv Theodore Roszak (1933-2011) – Locus Online SYZ