William Thomas "Bill" Quick (born May 1946),[citation needed] who sometimes writes under the pseudonym Margaret Allan,[1] is a science fiction author and self-described libertarian conservative blogger.
[2] Quick is the author of 28 novels, the most famous of which is the cyberpunk Dreams of Flesh and Sand, and co-authored a six-novel series with William Shatner.
Originally from Indiana, he lives in Hunters Point, San Francisco, California.
He has also written a series of prehistoric adventure novels under the pen name Margaret Allan, the best selling of which was The Last Mammoth.
[4] His 2014 novel, Lightning Fall, a disaster thriller, was featured in a USA Today column[5] by Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds.