{"product_id":"edge-isbn-9781934287385","title":"Edge","description":"\u003ci\u003eEdge\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea—that have become the stuff of parody—become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a cataclysm extending beyond mankind's understanding of horror as it had previously been known. The world is falling apart because things are out of joint at the quantum level, about which of course there's never been any guarantee that everything has to remain stable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKoji Suzuki returns to the genre he's most famous for after many years of \"not wanting to write any more horror.\" As expected from Suzuki, the chills are of a more cerebral, psychological sort, arguably more unsettling and scary than the slice-and-dice gore fests that horror has become known in the U.S. Never content to simply do \"Suzuki\"—as it were—but rather push the envelope on what horror is in general and for which readers have come to know him, \u003ci\u003eEdge\u003c\/i\u003e borders on being cutting-edge science fiction. The author himself terms this novel, which he has worked on for some years, a work of \"quantum horror.\"\"For anyone who's read author Koji Suzuki's \u003cb\u003eRing\u003c\/b\u003e, you'll  know that the author is less concerned with jolting you using sudden  shocks or abrupt, violent scenarios; instead, Suzuki has a thing for  gradually tilting the world for his characters and the reader, shifting  the rules ever so slightly so that the certainties of our science can no  longer be trusted... \u003cb\u003eEdge\u003c\/b\u003e,  which sees the author at his most instructive, the book acting at times  as a brief(ish) treatise on nothing so much as the history since the Big  Bang, the evolution of mankind, the fragility of our math, and all tied  into the abrupt disappearance of a suburban Japanese family. As  apocalypses go, this is an inventive one, and although \u003cb\u003eEdge\u003c\/b\u003e won't have you leaving the lights on out of fear of the dark, Suzuki's  novel (which mixes that genre with sci-fi, journalism, and a little bit  of reality TV) will probably have you keeping the lights on picking  through some of the works in his extensively-sourced bibliography.\" - \u003ci\u003eMTV.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Suzuki is called the Stephen King of his country, but that's not really  accurate; King isn't nearly as adept at creating complex characters,  explaining scientific principles or writing the kind of dialogue that  might actually be spoken by humans.\" -\u003ci\u003e Las Vegas Mercury\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...Suzuki is plowing a path that nobody else has traveled, ...\" -\u003ci\u003e Agony Columns \u003c\/i\u003eKoji Suzuki was born in 1957 in Hamamatsu, southwest of Tokyo. He attended Keio University where he majored in French. After graduating he held numerous odd jobs, including a stint as a cram school teacher. Also a self-described jock, he holds a first-class yachting license and crossed the U.S., from Key West to Los Angeles, on his motorcycle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe father of two daughters, Suzuki is a respected authority on childrearing and has written numerous works on the subject. He acquired his expertise when he was a struggling writer and househusband. Suzuki also has translated a children's book into Japanese, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Sod Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e by the crime novelist Simon Brett.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1990, Suzuki's first full-length work, \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e won the Japanese Fantasy Novel Award and launched his career as a fiction writer. \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e, written with a baby on his lap, catapulted him to fame, and the multi-million selling sequels \u003ci\u003eSpiral \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLoop\u003c\/i\u003e cemented his reputation as a world-class talent. Often called the \"Stephen King of Japan,\" Suzuki has played a crucial role in establishing mainstream credentials for horror novels in his country. He is based in Tokyo but loves to travel, often in the United States.","brand":"Vertical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301588160741,"sku":"NP9781934287385","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781934287385.jpg?v=1767725866","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/edge-isbn-9781934287385","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}