Christopher Hinz

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Christopher Hinz (born March 10, 1951) is an American writer best known for the Paratwa science fiction trilogy. Hinz has also written comic bookfor DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He won the Compton Crook Award in 1988 for his novel Liege-Killer.

Hinz's Paratwa Trilogy consists of Liege-Killer (1987), Ash Ock (1989) and The Paratwa (1991). His nine issue comic book series titled Gemini Blood published under the Helix imprint of DC Comics. With illustrations from Tommy Lee Edwards, the comics deal with the same themes and with similar characters as the Paratwa Trilogy and it ran from 1996 to 1997. His book, Anachronisms (1988), was published in the wake of the critical acclaim garnered by Liege-Killer. It is not related to the Trilogy. He also wrote 10 issues for Marvel's Blade which comprised Volume 2 of the series.

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• Hinz, Christopher. Liege-killer / Christopher Hinz. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c1987. 458 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-312-00065-0

Book One of the Paratwa Saga. Description (from the back of the book):

Then - In the last days before Earth's nuclear annihilation, the most feared bio-weapons were the Paratwa - genetically engineered assassins. Now - Earth is a blistered wasteland. The orbital colonies have rebuilt civilization and lived in peace and harmony for more than two hundred years. The deadly Paratwa are extinct, only the stuff of children's nightmares. But people are being butchered in ways that terrify the local authorities. Only one kind of creature could cause this mayhem, and as the body count grows, the name Paratwa is whispered once again.

• Hinz, Christopher. Ash Ock : the Paratwa saga, book two / Christopher Hinz. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c1989. 308 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-312-03291-9

Book Two of the Paratwa Saga. Description (from the back of the book):

Earth is a blistered wasteland. Only the orbital colonies are left and those who have rebuilt civilization want to forget the nightmare that was the Paratwa - the dreaded bio-assassins that ravaged the planet and were eradicated at a terrible cost in human life. But they can't forget. Because the Paratwa are back, wreaking wholesale slaughter, destroying everything in their path without rhyme or reason. And as the body count grows, it looks like the question isn't whether or not the Paratwa will succeed in decimating the last vestiges of mankind. But when...

• Hinz, Christopher. The Paratwa / Christopher Hinz. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1991. 404 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-312-05489-0

Book Three of the Paratwa Saga. Description (from the back of the book):

The Paratwa, the dreaded bio-assassins who once gutted the Earth, are back. Senselessly slaughtering thousands of people, they are destroying everything in their path. And these monsters are just the advance guard. The terrible truth confronting humanity is that the majority of the Paratwa were not killed, but fled man's vengeance into deep space and are now returning in vast starships filled with unknown technology, bent on enslaving mankind. Desperate, the human colonists have banded together in a last bid to survive. And their best hope may come from the most unlikely source of all. A rogue Paratwa.

• Hinz, Christopher. Anachronisms / Christopher Hinz. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c1988. 304 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-312-01729-4

Description (from the back of the book):

Psionics - they were the next step in human evolution, gifted with the powers to receive, send or act as conveyors of telepathic messages. When psionic Mars Lea boarded the starship Alchemon to join its polanetary exploration team, she began receiving ominous psionic messages from an unknown source. Then the team discovered an ancient alien life form, and against Mars Lea's instincts, it was taken aboard the starship in a sealed containment unit... and what was supposed to be a triumphant journey home began. But the journey soon became a living nightmare as the ships systems inexplicably malfunctioned, starting the crew's descent into psionic madness. The captain, desperate to find and halt the mysterious enemy destroying his ship, was willing to use any defenses, including the sentinels, ruthless, fail-safe devices which would sacrifice anything, even the crew, to keep the ship alive!