First things first, stay calm.
If you are reading this, I’m not around anymore. Take the phone and speed dial 1. Tell the woman who answers that you are Eric Sanderson. The woman is Dr. Randle. She’ll understand what has happened.
With regret, and also hope,The First Eric Sanderson.

When Eric Sanderson wakes to amnesia and a haunting note from himself, he discovers an eerie world of thought and concept, a world in which ideas have a life of their own. Attacked by a force he cannot see and memories he cannot ignore—including those of a perfect love now lost—Eric discovers he is being relentlessly pursued by a shark that may exist only in his mind but which stalks him through the flows and streams of language and human interaction.Hunting the answers as he is hunted, Eric is led on a journey that will either bring the First Eric Sanderson back to life or destroy bothEric Sandersons forever.

An astounding and daring book by debut novelist Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts confronts readers with a fascinating puzzle aswell as an intensely absorbing story.

ISBN: 9780002006972
Imprint: Harper Perennial
On Sale: Apr 15, 2008
List price: $22.99
No of pages: 448
Trim Size: 5.250 in (w) x 8.000 in (h) x 1.130 in (d)
BISAC 1: FICTION / Literary

Steven Hall

Biography

STEVEN HALL is the author of The Raw Shark Texts and was lead writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield 1, for which he received a Writers Guild nomination. The Raw Shark Texts, his 2007 debut novel, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. An international bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2013, Hall was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by GrantaMaxwell’s Demon is his highly anticipated second novel. @stevenha11 steven-hall.org

 

First things first, stay calm.
If you are reading this, I’m not around anymore. Take the phone and speed dial 1. Tell the woman who answers that you are Eric Sanderson. The woman is Dr. Randle. She’ll understand what has happened.
With regret, and also hope,The First Eric Sanderson.

When Eric Sanderson wakes to amnesia and a haunting note from himself, he discovers an eerie world of thought and concept, a world in which ideas have a life of their own. Attacked by a force he cannot see and memories he cannot ignore—including those of a perfect love now lost—Eric discovers he is being relentlessly pursued by a shark that may exist only in his mind but which stalks him through the flows and streams of language and human interaction.Hunting the answers as he is hunted, Eric is led on a journey that will either bring the First Eric Sanderson back to life or destroy bothEric Sandersons forever.

An astounding and daring book by debut novelist Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts confronts readers with a fascinating puzzle aswell as an intensely absorbing story.

ISBN: 9780002006972
Imprint: Harper Perennial
On Sale: Apr 15, 2008
List price: $22.99
No of pages: 448
Trim Size: 5.250 in (w) x 8.000 in (h) x 1.130 in (d)
BISAC 1: FICTION / Literary

Steven Hall

Biography

STEVEN HALL is the author of The Raw Shark Texts and was lead writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield 1, for which he received a Writers Guild nomination. The Raw Shark Texts, his 2007 debut novel, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. An international bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2013, Hall was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by GrantaMaxwell’s Demon is his highly anticipated second novel. @stevenha11 steven-hall.org