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THIS SHOAL OF SPACE
Science-Horror

Scary Fun: A Summer Movie in a Book Classic dark SF in the tradition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and other monstrous shapes that slither through the night. A complex, imaginative tale set in a small California coastal town where the every-day touches hauntingly on the fabric of far space. A young reporter looking for her big break investigates mysterious zoo murders and stumbles upon an intergalactic invader in a virtual netherworld. Two men hover at the periphery--sinister Det. Vic Lara and handsome curator George Chatfield, each with his own terrible mysteries. Dark, creepy, rich with deeply layered characters, this novel is for the non-linear and imaginatively hungry reader who wants a full, crunchy read instead of a fast blur of cardboard characters and flimsy ideas. Challenging to the literal-minded when it was first published (1990), this was one of the world's first VR (virtual reality) novels--before The Matrix, before Dark City, there was This Shoal of Space. This novel was also one of the first two proprietary digital novels ever released online in the world (Clocktower Books, 1996-1997, along with the suspense novel Neon Blue, both by John T. Cullen…