Abyss

This job will eat you alive.From the bestselling author of Ascension, Nicholas Binge, Abyss is a creeping, Lovecraftian horror about work, technology and existential dread.Joe Rice is lost – lonely, disconnected and terminally online. His new job as an administrative assistant at the Ponos corporation seems like just another unfulfilling stop-gap. But from his first day, something is deeply wrong. The vast Canary Wharf office is empty, his line manager is a bundle of paranoid energy, and his work is monitored by WellBot, an AI wellness chatbot that demands total honesty while tracking his every move.As Joe’s tasks descend into a surreal nightmare, he’ll eventually learn that handing in his notice could have deadly consequences . . .‘Abyss does a fantastic job of staying uniformly creepy and claustrophobic, drawing its inspiration from a wide variety of sources while remaining trippy as heck’ – The Fantasy Hive* * *Praise for Nicholas Binge‘Old-school creepy . . . five-star horror’ – Stephen King‘Extremity is a fantastic, twisty, exhilarating novella . . . easily in the running for best novella of the year’ – The Fantasy Hive‘Binge is an author to watch’ – TJ Klune