Edge

WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD

Now in paperback! The author of the Ring trilogy that spawned blockbuster movies on bothsides of the Pacific presents a new level of terror with an apocalyptic work that casts the veryearth and skies into doubt.

When a team of American scientists tests new computer hardware by calculating the value of piinto the deep decimals, the figures begin to repeat a pattern where there ought to be none. It’smathematically untenable—unless the physical constants that undergird our universe havealtered, ever so slightly…

A cascade of missing persons reports, far from being supernatural, threatens to be perfectlynatural—a profound disturbance in being itself—and explodes into a mind trip of a crescendo inthis tale of quantum horror.

Koji Suzuki, born in 1957, held numerous odd jobs after college including a stint as a tutor. Thefather of two daughters, he’s also known in his native Japan for his guides on childrearing, anexpertise he acquired as a struggling writer and househusband. Edge is his eighth work toappear in English.

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