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The Thing on the Shore by Tom Fletcher (2011, UK-B Format Paperback)

The second in the series that began with The Leaping , set in a malevolent call-centre that just might be alive - affirming Tom Fletcher as the dark master for the 'temp' generation. When Artemis Black is assigned to manage a call-centre on behalf of a mysterious multinational corporation called Interext, the isolation and remoteness of the place encourage him to implement a decidedly unhinged personal project, installing what purports to be cutting-edge AI technology, with a real, 'human' voice, on the automated answering systems. As a result of Artemis' actions, one of his employees, Arthur, becomes aware of an intangible landscape inside the labyrinthine systems of the call-centre - a landscape in which he can feel some kind of otherworldly consciousness stirring and in which, perhaps as a result of his father's increasingly alarming eccentricities, he feels that he could find his recently deceased mother. Arthur takes refuge in this belief as his father, his job, and his house slowly deteriorate around him. He begins to conflate the mysterious, interstitial region that exists down the phonelines with the sea, as that was where his mother drowned. In a way he is right - Artemis' meddlings have attracted something, it is just not as benevolent as he thinks . . .

Lc Classification Number
Pr6106
Reviews
"A strong group of sf, fantasy, and horror titles provide a welcome distraction this month from the doldrums of winter . . . Horror in its infinite variety also makes an appearance. Incorporating both the debasing horror of the impersonal workplace and the unnamable terror from beyond, Tom Fletcher's The Thing on the Shore represents a more subtle form of the genre." - Library Journal, 'Fletcher's follow up to the excellent horror novel, The Leaping, is equally brilliant if not better ... At this rate Tom Fletcher's name will be up there with Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell in no time' Quazen.
Copyright Date
2011
Dewey Decimal
823.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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