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The Cipher

Kathe Koja

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#6992 of 8,085 books · #644 in Horror

Shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award (1992).

The Cipher won the 1991 Bram Stoker Award and was named one of io9.com's Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm. Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says "We're not." But they're not in control, not from the first moment, as those experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole.

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Publisher
Roadswell Editions
ISBN-13
9781938263002
Topics
Obsession and self-destructionBody horror and transformationToxic relationships and the artistic underground

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