Cold Witness
Amazon.com
My review -
John
Marshall is sent to the abandoned facility at Orford Ness to repurpose it for
radio broadcasting. It was the centre of a secret project known as Cobra Mist.
When he enters the buildings he becomes subject to what he thinks are
migraines. Another worker there had reprogrammed Cobra Mist to run a secret
project of his own.
This
is a study of personal reality. Who are we? How do we know? Who is dreaming and
who is the dream? There is a Matrix-like quality of wondering what truly
exists. I found this story very creepy, partly from the feeling it so
brilliantly conjures that the mind is fragile and its contents may not be real.
Partly, too, it was my own phobia of abandoned building which ramped up this
feeling of unease throughout the story. A very good read for lovers of sci-fi
and speculative fiction.
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