Sci-fi

The extremes

by Christopher Priest
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Description

British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down south coast town of Bulverton, where a gunman's massacre has haunting similarities to the murders in Texas. Desperate to unravel the mystery, Teresa turns to the virtual reality world of Extreme Experience, ExEx, now commercially available since she trained on it in the US. The best and worst of human experience can be found in ExEx, and in the extremes of violence Teresa finds that past and present combine ...

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Awards

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Details

First published
August 1998
Pages
314
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Gollancz
Language
English
ISBN
9780575075788
Series
Standalone

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