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In an effort to explain the eerie coincidence of two mass murders occurring on the same day halfway around the world, one of which killed her husband, Teresa Simon is drawn into the frightening virtual-reality world called Extreme Experience.
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A bizarre and horrible coincidence draws FBI special agent Teresa Simons to England: on the same day that a mass murderer killed her husband and fourteen others in Kingwood City, Texas, another spree killer massacred seventeen in the small Sussex town of Bulverton. Teresa seeks to understand her husband's death by exploring the similar but unrelated event in Bulverton, as she once explored reconstructions of historical mass murders in ExEx (Extreme Experience, a brutally realistic form of virtual reality) to train for her FBI job. In Bulverton she finds a commercial ExEx parlor, which, she is horrified and fascinated to discover, offers a Bulverton mass-murder scenario. As Teresa explores both the town and the scenario of Bulverton, the separations between reality and ExEx, between ExEx murder reconstructions, between past and present, begin to blur--and so does the separation between Kingwood City and Bulverton, as Teresa realizes the simultaneity of the events may be more than a coincidence.
A New York Times Recommended Book, The Extremes received the British Science Fiction Association award for 1999. Christopher Priest's previous novel, The Prestige, won the World Fantasy Award and the James Tait Black Award. --Cynthia Ward
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"An enthralling novel, which raises important issues about the pornography of violence and its packaging as entertainment. A thought-provoking, terrifying and persuasive prophecy." --Jessica Mann, Sunday Telegraph
"The Extremes is a novel of violence and reality, of extraordinary power and ambiguity. A vital contribution from a key British writer." --Stephen Baxter, SFX
"Once again we reach the end of a Priest novel caught up in a prestidigitation. In the end, The Extremes is perhaps a nightmare, perhaps not. Most extraordinarily, for most of its length it is both. Teresa is both a meat-puppet victim of the new world, and one of those who writes our futures for us. Swift, haunting, cruel and kind, The Extremes is a guidance manual for the maze we face." --John Clute, The Independent
"Undoubtedly his best yet...a tour de force." --Brian Stableford, Interzone
"Mesmerizing." --Brian Case, Time Out [UK]
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312205414
- ISBN 13 9780312205416
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages393
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