Pub: Berkley
Price: $7.50
See Also: 1973
Notes: revised version
Dean Koontz - Long Fiction - 1997/98
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Demon Seed
Pub: Berkley |
| "Susan Harris lived in a self-imposed seclusion, in a mansion featuring numerous automated systems controlled by a state-of-the-art computer. Every comfort was provided, and in this often unsafe world of ours, her security was absolute. But now her security system has been breached, her sanctuary from the outside world violated by an insidious artificial intelligence which has taken control of her house. In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer's consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about the flesh... " | |
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Sole Survivor
Pub: Knopf |
| My synopsis: Joe Carpenter leads a void, gloomy existence since a fateful airplane crash has deprived him of his wife and daughters, leaving him with a burden of grief and no reason for living. One year after the accident, though, he spots a woman taking pictures near his family's grave, and right before being assaulted by a horde of thugs he gets to know that not all the passengers who were on board have perished. The astonishing revelation plunges Joe in a breathtaking adventure. He sets out to discover more about the survivor's identity and how he (or she) could escape the deadly flight. What he finds out is a shocking jigsaw puzzle, made up of people mysteriously committing suicide while others are hell-bent on concealing some terrifying secrets by killing innocents without regrets. A real odyssey that will put to the test Joe's innermost beliefs about life and death. | |
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Tick Tock
Pub: Ballantine |
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My synopsis: Tommy Phan is a thirty-year-old Vietnamese-American detective novelist, and his existence is threatened when he discovers something strange on his doorstep: it's a sort of rag doll, covered entirely with white cloth, featuring just a few crossed black stitches where the eyes and mouth should be. Other stitches are placed over the heart. Just a few hours go by, though, and then, at night, the doll proves to be more than Tommy could have ever imagined, as a curious throb starts to issue from its chest, and some of the stitches come apart to reveal a blinking, reptilian green eye. The vicious creature starts to grow, then, revealing itself as a hulking and formidable opponent bent on killing his host. As a finishing touch, it types an ominous message on Tommy's computer screen, leaving him just a few hours to discover what this thing is and why it's pursuing him. |
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Fear Nothing
Pub: Bantam |
| "Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay. For Christopher has made a strange peace with a very rare genetic disorder shared by only one thousand other Americans, a disorder that leaves him extremely vulnerable to the light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. It is only at night that he is truly free. And then he witnesses a murder in the night--a murder only he can solve. While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly." | |
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Seize the Night
Pub: Bantam |
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"Christopher Snow, the protagonist of Fear Nothing, returns and is on the trail of missing children in Koontz's newest thriller. Snow believes the children are still alive and that their disappearances have something to do with clandestine scientific experiments at a nearby abandoned military base. In Moonlight Bay, California, children are disappearing. The police cannot be trusted to solve their mystery, because in Moonlight Bay the purpose of the police is often to conceal the crime. Christopher Snow, whose rare genetic disorder -- xeroderma pigmentosum, XP -- leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light, sets out to find the missing son of a former sweetheart and then the other lost children. The disappearances have something to do with clandestine scientific experiments at a nearby abandoned military base, Fort Wyvern. Chris challenges those who would conceal even the most heinous crimes in order to keep the secrets of Fort Wyvern, and his genetic handicap becomes his greatest advantage: forced to live a life in shadows, Chris knows the night world better than anyone -- better even than his adversaries." |
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