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''False Memory'' is a 1999 novel by author [[Dean Koontz]]. |
''False Memory'' is a 1999 novel by author [[Dean Koontz]]. |
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Martie Rhodes is a successful, [[Happily Married]] video game designer, who one day abruptly becomes terrified of her own reflection, and then of herself. She grabs everything that could conceivably be turned in to a weapon out of her house and throws it away in a complete frenzy, and is taken by her concerned husband, Dusty, to see the psychiatrist currently treating her best friend for agoraphobia. Dusty himself has been experiencing odd bits of [[Missing Time]], and his brother Skeet has recently tried to commit a rather bizarre suicide. |
Martie Rhodes is a successful, [[Happily Married]] video game designer, who one day abruptly becomes terrified of her own reflection, and then of herself. She grabs everything that could conceivably be turned in to a weapon out of her house and throws it away in a complete frenzy, and is taken by her concerned husband, Dusty, to see the psychiatrist currently treating her best friend for agoraphobia. Dusty himself has been experiencing odd bits of [[Missing Time]], and his brother Skeet has recently tried to commit a rather bizarre suicide. |
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The whole situation seems weird, almost supernatural, but the truth is even weirder and a good deal more twisted. Their good doctor, they discover, is not what he seems… |
The whole situation seems weird, almost supernatural, but the truth is even weirder and a good deal more twisted. Their good doctor, they discover, is not what he seems… |
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* [[Abusive Parents]] - Dusty and Skeet’s are pretty damn terrible. Skeet even refuses to call his mother anything other than her first name. |
* [[Abusive Parents]] - Dusty and Skeet’s are pretty damn terrible. Skeet even refuses to call his mother anything other than her first name. |
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* {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]] - The Bellon-Tockland Institute, the psychiatric/political think tank for whom Mark Ahriman developed his mind control method. As a reward, they let him alone of their members use it for personal amusement ([[You Have Failed Me|gruesomely executing another member who did the same]]) and have used their connections to threaten potential witnesses to his past misdeeds. However, they never get around to acting in the book itself before Ahriman is dealt with, after which they [[Karma Houdini|publicly deny any connection to him]].}} |
* {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]] - The Bellon-Tockland Institute, the psychiatric/political think tank for whom Mark Ahriman developed his mind control method. As a reward, they let him alone of their members use it for personal amusement ([[You Have Failed Me|gruesomely executing another member who did the same]]) and have used their connections to threaten potential witnesses to his past misdeeds. However, they never get around to acting in the book itself before Ahriman is dealt with, after which they [[Karma Houdini|publicly deny any connection to him]].}} |
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