William Thomas "Bill" Quick, who sometimes writes under the pseudonyms Margaret Allan, Quentin Thomas, or Sean Kiernan, is a science fiction author and self-described libertarian conservative blogger. 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.
Quick runs the conservative blog Daily Pundit.
Quick's 2014 novel Lightning Fall, a disaster thriller, was featured in a USA Today column by Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds. Quick's novel and Reynold's column were commented on by other libertarian sources, and Quick wrote that the book reached Amazon's Top 200 sales list, and was #3 in Hard SF sales.
