Chimera (Salt Modern Fiction)

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BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED - Company Credit Reports, Company Accounts, Director Search Reports". www.companysearchesmadesimple.com . Retrieved 29 January 2023. Any Cop?: The idea of erasure reminds me of Niamh Prior’s recent short story titled ‘Peter and Jane’ , which uses only the 300 key words from the eponymous Ladybird First Reader Series to convey dark tales of Peter and Jane’s adulthood. Similarly, it is the sub-text of Chimerathat haunts, and the questions this provocative novel asks. Artemis has recently returned to Earth, alone. As though her memory has been wiped clean, she has forgotten what happened after the landing. By writing down sensations, dreams and literary fragments floating in her consciousness, she is hoping to recover some of those experiences. Chimera is the result. This was one of those books that I didn’t do much research into before buying it. I had seen it described as a classic and creepy gothic novel and that’s the only convincing I needed to get it. Unfortunately, this didn’t live up to my expectations. In the end, the cover was what I liked most about it. Dreams being such a prominent motif, the novel’s uncomfortable sense of dislocation is both blurred and heightened by a hallucinatory otherworldliness, and once the crew have reached Oneiros to find an AI-created virtual reality awaiting them it becomes harder than ever to say for sure what’s real and what isn’t.

From the moment nineteen-year-old orphan Violet meets the urbane Lord Archie Murray outside a London café, she is swept up in a story straight out of a fairytale. The only problem is, as the narrative often reminds us, she doesn't know which fairytale it is...A gothic music video of a novel that whirls with weirdness... madly energetic ... genuinely scary.’ — Stephen King A dream specialist, Artemis has been sent with the crew to ensure their psychological well-being. She studies micro-expressions and assesses fellow crew members’ behaviours and characteristics. For their own good, they are given pills to prevent them from dreaming, because dreams might impact on their sense of reality. But the AI Mission Control has hinted that her knowledge will be vital when they reach their destination.

In Herd’s review, published in the latest edition of the TLS (September 8 2023), she described Chimera as a “brilliant” sci-fi novel which challenges readers “not to understand the physics, but to follow the novel’s strands of mystery”. Alice Mary Rose THOMSON personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . Retrieved 29 January 2023. Alice Thompson's gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Her ship, the Chimera has been sent to look for organisms that will help assuage Earth's global warming, but it becomes clear on the journey that there are other disturbing reasons for the mission.As they approach Oneiros, Ivan, their biologist researcher, along with the bacteria he had been studying, disappears. Chris Hamilton-Emery, director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Jenny Brown at Jenny Brown Associates. The novel will be published on 15th May 2023. "Alice Thompson’s novel is a chilling mystery, using its science fiction tropes to explore a world filled with AI," said Hamilton-Emery. "Where we love and are loved by AI, but where the narrative structures that make us who we are, what we know of ourselves, are wrapped inside questions, doubts, lies, conceits and, of course, sincere and deadly threats." But I still stand beside my rating that I did quite like this book. It has some very gruesome, dark and delicious moments as well as some very interesting themes. While this book doesn’t have any supernatural elements, it is definitely a horror read. Set in a not-so-distant future, Alice Thompson’s eighth work of fiction, Chimera, is just that: a chimera of a novel. It also happens to be the name of the spaceship sent on a follow-up expedition to the Moon Oneiros. The mission is to look for micro-organisms that might alleviate the critical levels of carbon dioxide on Earth. But soon enough, we sense there is also a darker purpose.’ — Afric McGlinchey, Bookmunch