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Stan and Charmaine are living in their car, struggling through desperate poverty during a economic collapse. An advert for the positron project offers them a stable job and homes of their own: provided that every second month they swap their home for a prison cell. At first is well, but as they steadily become obsessed with their counterparts who are in their home while they take their turn in prison, their lives begin to unravel faster than the positron experiment itself.
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Daisy Jones and the Six were icons of the 1970s, a rock band that transcended the genre to become an icon for their generation. Then, on the 12 July 1979, the band dramatically split, offering no reason why. Now, in a collection of interviews with the surviving members of the band, the truth is revealed.
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The protagonist is about to tell us the saddest story he has ever heard. It concerns how he and his wife Florence became friends with Captain and Leonora Ashburton, and how what outwardly seemed a happy life became riddle with lies, deception and betrayal. As our confused and saddened narrator attempts to sort out the story in his head, we are lead through a labyrinth of memories, maybe true and maybe false, to an inevitable, catastrophic conclusion.
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Two twins and their friend are lying in a back yard one night when the stars go out. Thus begins a story that spans thirty odd years, as the three of them find strive to survive and overcome the slow apocalypse that has overtaken the earth. What has caused the stars to go out? Who is behind this mystery? And how much longer does humanity have?
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Our protagonist’s life has ground to his halt: his wife has divorced him after having an affair, his business is grinding to a halt as the friend with whom he founded it steadily succumbs to alcoholism, and his best friend Rat disappeared years ago – only occasionally sending bizarre, non-sequitur letters containing money or more recently a picture of some sheep.
This picture becomes important, however, because it contains the image of a sheep with the mark of a star – a sheep that is of great interest to the shadowy right-wing organisation that have controlled Japan for years. An organisation that will pay him a great deal of money to find that sheep – or destroy him if he does not.
Spurred on by his new girlfriend and her magical ears, this man with no motivation finds himself on a quest to find a single lost sheep on a mountainside in a country full of mountains. What he finds will make all that seem relatively normal.
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