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quirk: or: twenty-seven, or how spam poetry saved the world
When normal people get spam email, they delete it. Usually, without even looking at it, you delete yours. Right?
But Harold, Angela, Abu and Paul have some very specific quirks. They’re not normal. And neither is the number 27.
It happens first for Harold, the number mysteriously appearing to him in a line of inadvertently read “twenty seven live … find the club.” For you, this is gibberish. For Harold, it leads to Paris and a search for the "Forever 27 Club" – Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, et al – perhaps not actually dead, it turns out.
Angela is similarly led to reunite with lost friends, then possibly a lost love. For Abu, 27 leads to a lost son, out on a strange quest of his own. When the number comes to Paul, it starts the alternate reality game of the 27 Bigwigs – a game he’s not playing alone.
Meanwhile, Sam Gregory wakes up strapped to a table. Meanwhile, Andrew Campbell plans his own death (and resurrection). Meanwhile, Ishaq can fly.
Veering from continent to continent and intertwining, these and a dozen more stories-in-vignettes all end at one Room 27, situated somewhere in Eden, unexpectedly located at the top of Mount Tamalpais in California.
But will the room be reached before The Few can set their God Machines in motion?
But Harold, Angela, Abu and Paul have some very specific quirks. They’re not normal. And neither is the number 27.
It happens first for Harold, the number mysteriously appearing to him in a line of inadvertently read “twenty seven live … find the club.” For you, this is gibberish. For Harold, it leads to Paris and a search for the "Forever 27 Club" – Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, et al – perhaps not actually dead, it turns out.
Angela is similarly led to reunite with lost friends, then possibly a lost love. For Abu, 27 leads to a lost son, out on a strange quest of his own. When the number comes to Paul, it starts the alternate reality game of the 27 Bigwigs – a game he’s not playing alone.
Meanwhile, Sam Gregory wakes up strapped to a table. Meanwhile, Andrew Campbell plans his own death (and resurrection). Meanwhile, Ishaq can fly.
Veering from continent to continent and intertwining, these and a dozen more stories-in-vignettes all end at one Room 27, situated somewhere in Eden, unexpectedly located at the top of Mount Tamalpais in California.
But will the room be reached before The Few can set their God Machines in motion?
293 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 14, 2017
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mainly adding these so ppl on goodreads see them - rating 5 cuz obv :)
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