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The Thing On The Shore
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The second in the series that began with The Leaping, set in a malevolent callcenter that just might be aliveaffirming Tom Fletcher as the dark master for the 'temp' generation When Artemis Black is assigned to manage a call center in the bleak coastal town of Whitehaven on behalf of a mysterious multinational corporation called Interext, the isolation and remoteness of the place encourage him to implement a decidedly unhinged project. He installs what purports to be cuttingedge AI technology, with a real, 'human' voice, on the automated answering systems. As a result, one of his employees, Arthur, becomes aware of an intangible landscape inside the labyrinthine systems of the callcentera 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 rightArtemis' meddlings have attracted something, it is just not as benevolent as he thinks.
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