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Suzanne Houston edited the first sentence of Thorns Sunday, September 13 2009.
- Pain is instructive.
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Suzanne Houston edited the quotations of Thorns Sunday, September 13 2009.
- Added a quotation: “Yes. Yes. I accept the torture. I'm your toy, Chalk. Only a human being would refuse the offer. But I accept, I accept!”Minner Burris
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Suzanne Houston edited the summary of Thorns Sunday, September 13 2009.
Minnera Burris, hideously changed by alien surgeons and Lona Kelvin, who donated several hundred of her ova to science, are brought together by eneterainer Duncan Chalk to provice material for is deovouring media empire and for his vampireish feeding on emotions. They start a relaiionship bullt on supporting each other, but soon find they only have their freakishness in common. Then each discovers the bargan the other made with Chalk. Chalk feeds on their emotions as their initlal fragile love is tested and broken by what has been done to each of them, physically or psychologically. The conflict is driven by both Chalk's placeing them in situations where they will be forced to confront thier limits, and also by their growing realiziaon that they must find a way to fight what has happened to them.
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Suzanne Houston edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Thorns Sunday, September 13 2009.
- Added: To freakisly altered people are brought together by a man who feels on others emtiions to be an entertaining meal.
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Shelfari edited the description of Thorns Saturday, August 22 2009.
Duncan Chalk's six-hundred-pound frame is nearly as large as his media empire. Beneath the depths of his immense rolls of flab, the fabulously wealthy mogul wields the editorial power to deliver his programming across the solar system to billions of viewers. His newest real-life romance drama is between a starman who survived painful surgical experimentation while in alien captivity, and an emotionally scarred 17-year-old virgin. When the arranged relationship takes off on a whirlwind tour of the antarctic and out to the moons of Saturn, the viewers are swept up in the romance, but Chalk's true motives are revealed when the doomed relationship begins to unravel ... and Chalk can feed on the emotional anguish of the two lost souls. Nebula Award- Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
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