Author : Tom Fletcher
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
ISBN 13 : 162365307X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Book Synopsis The Thing on the Shore by : Tom Fletcher
Download or read book The Thing on the Shore written by Tom Fletcher and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thing on the Shore takes place in a call center in Whitehaven. When Artemis Black (from The Leaping) is assigned to manage the 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's 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's meddlings have attracted something, it is just not as benevolent as he thinks.