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The Many

by Sylvain Neuvel

A first contact story built around shared minds

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A first contact story built around shared minds

In Marquette, Michigan, an unexpected encounter at a local donut shop begins a chain of mental connections among advertising executive Carole Veilleux, shop owner Booker, Carole’s husband Shivansh, and doctor Evelyn Schlapp. As their separate minds merge into a collective, the novel frames alien contact through a disruption of individual identity and everyday relationships. Its central question is not only what the arrival of something strange means, but how people might understand one another when the boundaries between them begin to change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Science-fiction readers interested in alien contact presented through intimate human relationships.
  • Readers drawn to stories about collective consciousness and the boundaries of individual identity.

Themes

Alien contactCollective consciousnessIdentityHuman connection

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Book overview

The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other, from the critically acclaimed author of Sleeping Giants.

"I'm you now. We all are."

When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at Booker's donut shop and bites Booker on the arm, it's about the most interesting thing to happen in the small city of Marquette, Michigan, in years.

But that's only the beginning of the story. Carole and Booker find their minds merging, in a collective that extends to include Carole's husband Shivansh and local doctor Evelyn Schlapp. The four of them become the beginning of something larger and stranger than they could ever have imagined.
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