Book description
Soon to be a major film. Incarceron - a futuristic prison like no
other: it deals life and death. It watches all. Inside, descendants of
original prisoners exist in a terrifying mix of high technology and
medieval torture chamber, a hidden world torn by rivalry and savagery,
so vast it contains cells and corridors, cities, forests, seas. Legend
says only one man, Sapphique, has ever escaped. But 17-year-old Finn has
haunting visions of earlier life. Has he really always been here?
Outside, Claudia, daughter of Incarceron's Warden, is trapped in her own
kind of prison - a world constructed by computer to look like a past
era, the advance of Time forbidden. A forced marriage she dreads,
assassination plots she fears, and desires. She knows nothing of
Incarceron. Then Finn and Claudia simultaneously find a device - a
crystal key. They can talk to each other. One inside, one outside. The
plan for escape is born. But Incarceron knows - for Incarceron is alive
... CATHERINE FISHER is an award-winning fantasy writer. The Oracle
was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award 2003, The Conjuror`s Game for
the Smarties Award, The Snow-Walker`s Son for the W. H.Smith Mind
Boggling Award, The Candle Man won the Tir-Na-n`Og Award, and Corbenic
was shortlisted. Author of 16 books for children and two volumes of
award-winning poetry, she is particularly well-known in Wales.
