Informationen zum Autor Terry Miles is an award-winning filmmaker and the creator of the Public Radio Alliance and that network's series of hit podcasts: Tanis, Rabbits, The Black Tapes, and The Last Movie . He splits his time between the dark emerald gloom of the Pacific Northwest and sunny Los Angeles. Klappentext "After nearly winning the eleventh iteration of Rabbits, the mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas, Emily Connors suddenly finds herself trapped in a dimensional stream where the game does not exist. At all. Except . . . why do sinister figures show up to stop her every time she goes looking? Does Rabbits truly not exist, or is it being hidden? And if it's being hidden, why--and by whom? Meanwhile, architect and theme park designer Rowan Chess is having the weirdest month of his life, full of odd coincidences and people who appear one moment and vanish the next, with no trace they ever even existed. The game that is hiding from Emily seems to have found Rowan--with a vengeance. But only when Rowan and Emily meet do things start to get dangerous, for together they uncover a conspiracy far deeper and deadlier than either of them expected--one that could forever change the nature not only of the game, but of reality itself"-- Leseprobe 1 What's Your Favorite Color? The night was clear and cool, and although the distant lights from a handful of determined stars did their best to cut through the dense urban haze of the city, it was dark. The kind of dark where all kinds of horrible shit could happen. The tester stepped from the passenger door of a black SUV and instinctively pulled up the collar of her gray jacket against a light rain that hadn't started to fall, but would do so presently. She was on her way to administer the test. She hadn't tested anyone new in over a year. The fact that she was doing so now was none of her concern. She was hired to administer the test, nothing more. Ask the questions. Record the answers. Submit the card. Glass of wine. That last one wasn't part of the protocol, of course, but it had been a long day and she hadn't had a drink for weeks. She'd asked for something on the plane, but they weren't serving alcohol for some reason. The lack of alcohol wasn't the end of the world. It was a short flight, two hours from San Francisco to Seattle, but still, flying without drinking felt almost uncivilized. She'd been to Seattle once before, as a child. It was the first time she'd seen an ocean. She remembered picking up broken seashells and flipping over rocks to chase the tiny crabs that would appear from the sand beneath the rocks as if by magic. She wondered, as she approached a wooden door in the middle of a low red-­brick building, if she'd have time to visit the Pike Place Market. Or maybe the Space Needle? She knocked twice, and waited for a response. Come in, said a low raspy voice from the other side. She opened the door and stepped into a small waiting area. There was a man standing there. He was about forty years old, tall and athletic, with a thick frame and curly black hair. He looked like a generic government agent straight out of central casting except for the fact that his dark gray suit fit him a whole lot better than she'd ever seen on an agent. There was something sharp and dangerous about his eyes. He handed her a clipboard that included a pen along with a Phase Four testing form, then turned and started walking away. Phase Four. They didn't get many of those. She pressed the clipboard against her leg and followed. The man led her down a dark, narrow hallway that eventually dog-­legged into another slightly wider and much brighter hall. There were a number of doors on either side, each labeled with a wide strip of whi...

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Terry Miles

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Faced with the almost certain destruction of the multiverse, two loners must locate—and save—the dangerous and mysterious underground game Rabbits, set in the world of the hit podcast, and directly following the events of the novel.

The lore and legends around the mysterious alternate reality game deepen and gain new dimensions in this sequel to Rabbits, as a Rabbits afficionado named Emily Connors suddenly finds herself trapped in a reality where the game does not exist. At all. Except...why do these mysterious figures keep showing up to stop her every time she goes looking? Does Rabbits truly not exist, or is it being hidden? And if so, why? And by whom?

Meanwhile, architect and theme park designer Rowan Chess is having the weirdest month of his life, full of odd conicidences and people who seem to appear one moment, then vanish from existence the next, with no trace they were ever present. The game that is hiding from Emily seems to have found Rowan—with a vengeance.

But it is only when Rowan and Emily meet that things start to get dangerous, for together they uncover a conspiracy far deeper and deadlier that either of them expected. And one which could forever change the nature not only of the game, but of reality itself.

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*The lore and legends around the underground game known as Rabbits gain new dimensions in The Quiet Room, a twisty tale set in the world of the hit Rabbits* podcast.

“Another mind-bending adventure replete with mystery.”—Publishers Weekly**

After nearly winning the eleventh iteration of Rabbits, the mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas, Emily Connors suddenly finds herself trapped in a dimensional stream where the game does not exist. At all. Except . . . why do sinister figures show up to stop her every time she goes looking? Does Rabbits truly not exist, or is it being hidden? And if it’s being hidden, why—and by whom?

Meanwhile, architect and theme park designer Rowan Chess is having the weirdest month of his life, full of odd coincidences and people who appear one moment and vanish the next, with no trace they ever even existed. The game that is hiding from Emily seems to have found Rowan—with a vengeance.

But only when Rowan and Emily meet do things start to get dangerous, for together they uncover a conspiracy far deeper and deadlier than either of them expected—one that could forever change the nature not only of the game, but of reality itself.

Leseprobe
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What’s Your Favorite Color?**

The night was clear and cool, and although the distant lights from a handful of determined stars did their best to cut through the dense urban haze of the city, it was dark.

The kind of dark where all kinds of horrible shit could happen.

The tester stepped from the passenger door of a black SUV and instinctively pulled up the collar of her gray jacket against a light rain that hadn’t started to fall, but would do so presently.

She was on her way to administer the test.

She hadn’t tested anyone new in over a year. The fact that she was doing so now was none of her concern. She was hired to administer the test, nothing more.

Ask the questions.

Record the answers.

Submit the card.

Glass of wine.

That last one wasn’t part of the protocol, of course, but it had been a long day and she hadn’t had a drink for weeks. She’d asked for something on the plane, but they weren’t serving alcohol for some reason. The lack of alcohol wasn’t the end of the world. It was a short flight, two hours from San Francisco to Seattle, but still, flying without drinking felt almost uncivilized.

She’d been to Seattle once before, as a child. It was the first time she’d seen an ocean. She remembered picking up broken seashells and flipping over rocks to chase the tiny crabs that would appear from the sand beneath the rocks as if by magic.

She wondered, as…