Chimera (Salt Modern Fiction)

Product Information

Again that feeling, acutely sensory, that flushed through her body, upwards into her thoughts, until she felt she could apprehend the icy reality of the world.

The Book Collector throws the essential elements of the gothic chiller into a blender and what emerges is something between pastiche and critique, in which its author never loses sight of the need to give her readers, first and foremost, an unputdownable yarn.

Her ship, the Chimera has been sent to look for organisms that will help assuage Earth’s global warming, but it becomes clear on the journey that there are other disturbing reasons for the mission.

Accompanied by dryads, sophisticated AIs with synthetic bodies, nothing is quite as it seems, even desire. As with her previous work, Thompson’s atmospheric palette is hallucinatory, playing with illusion and reality. Considering especially the horrible ending of original Artemis, that ends up negating a lot of the emotional impact thus far. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. The mission is to look for micro-organisms that might alleviate the critical levels of carbon dioxide on Earth.

Identities become con-fused as his sexual obsession with a nightclub singer becomes entwined with sightings of Louise, his own torturous memories, and new visions of the lost Emily. In a desperate bid for success, Max decides to compromise his talent by writing a horror bestseller. Science fiction is a genre I read only occasionally and this is an interesting take on the dangers of space exploration. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. but Thompson takes a very distinctive approach, the notion of “dreams as poetic metaphors of thought” allowing for explorations of the nature of consciousness and where it resides, the fear of losing one’s identity, the omnipresence of AI, the frightening implications of virtual reality and the suggestion of forces powerful enough to override both machine programming and human nature – all overlapping and interacting with each other in interesting and inventive ways.

When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the whereabouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers of deceptions and disappearances that lead him inexorably back to an unsolved mystery in his own past: the loss of his young daughter Emily.