Description |
350 pages ; 22 cm |
Note |
Includes excerpt from Caroline Hardaker's Composite Creatures. |
Bibliography |
Bibliographical references (pages 334-336). |
Summary |
Magpie is out of ideas. She's desperate enough to try anything. Just when she thinks her life can get no worse, she discovers herself, or rather her own dead body, partially buried in the mudbank of a river. A man stands by, a familiar stranger. What does he want? And why can't she remember getting here? Why can't she remember anything? Unbeknownst to her, two pairs of eyes watch from behind an observation screen, in a room filled with computers and sensors. An experiment is unfolding, but is Magpie the subject, or practitioner? Reality becomes a slippery concept. And beyond the glass is something worse still: a hint of an outline, shaped in darkness... |
Subject |
Survival -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Fantasy fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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ISBN |
9780857669810 |
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0857669818 |
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