{"product_id":"hideous-night-9781838075224","title":"Hideous Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eCeline Dubois is a \u003cstrong\u003ebrilliant scientist\u003c\/strong\u003e working on advanced scientific research into the \u003cstrong\u003efoundations of reality\u003c\/strong\u003e. A committed lesbian, she is based at CERN in Switzerland and is brusque, dedicated, efficient and definitely does not \"suffer fools gladly\". Then one day, two \u003cstrong\u003every strange things happen\u003c\/strong\u003e to disturb her self-assurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirstly, she opens an e-mail from a \u003cstrong\u003edisgraced former physicist\u003c\/strong\u003e that informs her that \"\u003cem\u003eEarth is a farm\"\u003c\/em\u003e and all humans are the prey of a race of \u003cstrong\u003einvisible parasites\u003c\/strong\u003e that infest them and cause degenerative diseases. Naturally, she disregards it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecondly, at a meeting she hears one of her junior colleagues relate how his staff are reporting mysterious events, which some of them refer to as \"seeing ghosts.\" Ordered to investigate this claim Dubois is at first dismissive but then herself encounters the inexplicable phenomenon of a \u003cstrong\u003ecolumn of grey mist \u003c\/strong\u003ethat seems to be trying to entrap her. And yet she can find no evidence on the CCTV that it existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater, both Dubois and Hilda, her girlfriend, realise that they are both suffering from different forms of \u003cstrong\u003eautoimmune illness\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterwards, Dubois has a meeting with the physicist who sent the peculiar e-mail. He is Marius Larsen, a physically imposing Norwegian who was sacked after a failed experiment involving a \u003cstrong\u003epowerful laser\u003c\/strong\u003e. Larsen claims a side-effect of that accident, which apparently killed his friend, is that he can now see the parasites - which call themselves \"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ehran\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\". Dubois has him thrown out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDubois and partner are promoted to take part in research using a new, very \u003cstrong\u003epowerful particle collider\u003c\/strong\u003e in Japan. However, this facility also reports inexplicable happenings in which people are vanishing without trace. Dubois finds that Larsen has followed her there and is still peddling his claims. Both Larsen and Hilda go missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe discovers that she has been transported to a\u003cstrong\u003e ruined Earth\u003c\/strong\u003e some centuries on from her time. After being held captive by some degenerate humans, she is eventually rescued by the agents of an entity called \"Kewfor.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReunited with both Larsen and Hilda in Kewfor's citadel she learns the horrific truth: the hran are very real and their subjugation of humanity has only just begun. All three must cross to the realm of the hran in a desperate, final attempt to \u003cstrong\u003edefeat the parasites and reclaim the Earth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambria Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781838075224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.71d","brand":"Martyn Rhys Vaughan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36669510582428,"sku":"9781838075224","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c079af57-a7bd-4d04-b730-41e10b5d7e62.jpg?v=1603920353","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hideous-night-9781838075224","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}