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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The identify that story/book thread: Home of the gas pump boy
 
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VOICEOFTHEDRAGON
Jan 1, 2006

 I saw this at Borders about a year ago, and for some reason didn't make a note of the name. From what I remember of the back cover, far into the future two rival factions of humans had gathered. One group wanted to let the universe expand forever until heat death, and the other wanted to start some process that would collapse the universe back into a singularity, giving new life a chance to flourish at the expense of, well, everything. The story may have followed one man who was in the 'collapse the universe' group. Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about because the concept really interests me!

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VOICEOFTHEDRAGON
Jan 1, 2006

elbow posted:

I have a pretty weird and vague one.

I'm not sure if I've actually ever read the entire thing, or just a page, and I'm also not sure whether it's a short story or a novel.

The only thing I remember is some sort of necrophilic scene with 3 or 4 people in a room, one of whom is dead. I'm fairly sure there's a little girl involved (who may or may not be the dead one) and there's some fascination with the dead person's eye. I'm not sure if they actually have sex with the corpse, but there's supposed to be an erotic atmosphere (a very hosed up one, obviously).

For some reason I have the feeling that the story is quite old, and may have been written by someone who wrote some famous novels/stories, like Poe.

Anyone?

That sounds like a scene from The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.

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