Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. "Taut and elegant, carefully introspected and thoughtfully explored."- The New York Timesįrom award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Read this book, but take a firm grip on your hat before you start.”-Peter Straub “This is horror literature’s bebop, bold, smart, confident in its capacity to redefine its genre from the ground up.
Set in present-day Portland, The Dark Net is a cracked-mirror version of the digital nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew, including a twelve-year-old who has been fitted with a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness a technophobic journalist a one-time child evangelist with an arsenal in his basement and a hacker who believes himself a soldier of the Internet. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. a horror story for our times.”-Minneapolis Star Tribune An awfully impressive literary performance.”- New York Times Book Review The setup promises furious action, and Percy delivers, like Matheson, like King. one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself. Yet the most dangerous threats may come from within their own circle.Īs visions are fulfilled and an inevitable fate closes in, Elaine must decide how far she will go to change destiny-and what she is willing to sacrifice along the way. When their future comes to claim them, Elaine, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Morgana accompany Arthur to take his throne in stifling Camelot, where magic is outlawed, the rules of society chain them, and enemies are everywhere.
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On the mystical isle of Avalon, Elaine runs free and learns of the ancient prophecies surrounding her and her friends-countless possibilities, almost all of them tragic. But Elaine alone carries the burden of knowing what is to come-for Elaine of Shalott is cursed to see the future.
Of the bitter sorceress, Morgana, who will turn against them all. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will betray him with his most loyal knight, Lancelot. The Lady of Shalott reclaims her story in this bold feminist reimagining of the Arthurian myth from the New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess.Įveryone knows the legend. "-Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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