Caitlin Starling, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM author
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Caitlin Starling returns to Fictitious to talk about her new horror-tinged, sci-fi thriller, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM. \\xa0We talk writing surreal scenes, and using a "load-bearing cat".\\xa0
About Last to Leave the Room
The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn\\u2019t exist before \\u2013 and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her.
This doppelg\\xe4nger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating and cruel. It appears fully, terribly human, passing every test Tamsin can devise. But the longer the double exists, the more Tamsin begins to forget pieces of her life, to lose track of time, to grow terrified of the outside world.
As her employer grows increasingly suspicious, Tamsin must try to hold herself together long enough to figure out what her double wants from her, and just where the mysterious door leads\\u2026
LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM\\xa0is potent and surreal, horror-inflected science fiction available now from St. Martin\\u2019s Press:
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About Caitlin Starling
Caitlin Starling is the nationally bestselling author of\\xa0The Death of Jane Lawrence, as well as\\xa0Last to Leave the Room\\xa0and the Bram Stoker-nominated\\xa0The Luminous Dead. Her other works include\\xa0Yellow Jessamine\\xa0and a\\xa0Vampire: The Masquerade\\xa0novella,\\xa0The Land of Milk and Honey\\xa0(published in the collection\\xa0Walk Among Us). Her nonfiction has appeared in Nightmare, Uncanny, and Tor Nightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts.