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"A wonderfully dizzy mixture of Men
in Black, John Carpenter, Stephen King, The Matrix, and 1970s conspiracy
thrillers."- Forbes
"A story for
our zeitgeist. SIMMONDS' art invokes Bill Sienkiewicz."- Entertainment
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"It is FANTASTIC. Can't wait to…
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It’s the post-modern apotheosis of all conspiracy theories: convince enough people something is true, it becomes true. Doesn’t matter how far-fetched – the Earth is flat, the world is overcome with Bigfoots, shape-changing lizardmen are secretly controlling everything – convince enough people, and it happens. Except, who’s trying to convince people? And who’s trying to stop them? And are either of them on our side? It’s really a bottomless hole in the most enjoyable way (if paranoid fables are your thing): no matter how bad you realize it is, it’s actually worse. But wait, it’s even worse than that. And…
From Jesse's list on a world under secret control.
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