This was a sci-fi paperback. I read it in the early to mid 90's (I believe). All I remember is that it involved a man, monkeys and what he referred to as the "egg room". I remember really enjoying this story, but I can't remember what it's called or who wrote it!
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A quick search on "sci fi novel, egg room, monkeys" found Seize the Night by Dean Koontz. The Kirkus review describes it thus:
This tour de force, though less intense than Intensity (1996), has Koontz, the nimble master of the macabre, inventing a hugely empty California army base once used for secret experiments and now, in its vast, moonlit state, called Dead Town. Poetry freak Christopher Snow, also the hero of Fear Nothing, suffers from a rare genetic disorder, xeroderma pigmentosum: his skin can’t bear light of any sort. Thus he dresses only in black, wears dark shades, inhabits a house lit by bulbs in red lantern glass, sleeps by day, goes out only after sunset, and so on. Chris lives next to Wyvern Army Base, in Moonlight Bay, whose leading citizens know that terrible experiments at Wyvern produced genetically enhanced, intelligent monkeys, birds, snakes, coyotes, and humans, all richly menacing and still infesting the base. Many of the experimental humans were afflicted by a rogue retrovirus causing them to fall into beastly rages signaled by nocturnal eyeshine. That said, Koontz takes on a triple, or perhaps quadruple, oh, hell, quintuple plot, featuring serial murderers; an incredible Egg Room located three floors underground where, apparently, the experimental subjects were enhanced; and an invasion of the present by swift alien worms coming from sidetime and likely to take over the planet. Will murder-minded experimental folk now waltz around every continent? They’re an unpleasant bunch. When an old girlfriend’s boy is kidnaped and whisked off to the base, Chris follows with his enhanced dog Orson (as in Welles), a genius on a par with intelligent humans. Chris’s moonlit adventures in Dead Town, aided by his wisecracking crew of far-out buddies, form a story that bends into the bizarro mirror-world of Neverland. Heavy suspense, no sex, and darker than Nancy Drew. With headlong glee, Koontz again unveils encyclopedic intelligence about how things work in the physical world—and how to bolt sentences into the moonlight.
This tour de force, though less intense than Intensity (1996), has Koontz, the nimble master of the macabre, inventing a hugely empty California army base once used for secret experiments and now, in its vast, moonlit state, called Dead Town. Poetry freak Christopher Snow, also the hero of Fear Nothing, suffers from a rare genetic disorder, xeroderma pigmentosum: his skin can’t bear light of any sort. Thus he dresses only in black, wears dark shades, inhabits a house lit by bulbs in red lantern glass, sleeps by day, goes out only after sunset, and so on. Chris lives next to Wyvern Army Base, in Moonlight Bay, whose leading citizens know that terrible experiments at Wyvern produced genetically enhanced, intelligent monkeys, birds, snakes, coyotes, and humans, all richly menacing and still infesting the base. Many of the experimental humans were afflicted by a rogue retrovirus causing them to fall into beastly rages signaled by nocturnal eyeshine. That said, Koontz takes on a triple, or perhaps quadruple, oh, hell, quintuple plot, featuring serial murderers; an incredible Egg Room located three floors underground where, apparently, the experimental subjects were enhanced; and an invasion of the present by swift alien worms coming from sidetime and likely to take over the planet. Will murder-minded experimental folk now waltz around every continent? They’re an unpleasant bunch. When an old girlfriend’s boy is kidnaped and whisked off to the base, Chris follows with his enhanced dog Orson (as in Welles), a genius on a par with intelligent humans. Chris’s moonlit adventures in Dead Town, aided by his wisecracking crew of far-out buddies, form a story that bends into the bizarro mirror-world of Neverland. Heavy suspense, no sex, and darker than Nancy Drew. With headlong glee, Koontz again unveils encyclopedic intelligence about how things work in the physical world—and how to bolt sentences into the moonlight.
tinkerdan
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That's a pretty good description and now I must read that book.
Danny McG
Lid closed, monkey dead.
It's book two of a trilogy (book one is titled 'Fear Nothing') but, like many others, I've been waiting a considerable time for the final book..
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tinkerdan
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Have purchased both books and am now half way through the second book.
There is something to say about the difference in the way a horror/thriller like this is written that to me often feels like it's plodding along; both books are written about events that take place in a very short period of time and walk the reader through the labyrinth that is Moonlight Bay and to which the needle always falls on the mysterious military base Wyvern that seems to be layers of labyrinths of the weird and macabre that fall deep under the ground and would put any ant-farm to shame.
The suspense gets stretched out and lengthened by the long convoluted path of the character toward the goal that seems to slip farther away at each step while the reader is filled in with the gaps that would be the characters backstory and then the payoff to suspense is usually another clue about how Moonlight Bay and Wyvern work.
It's about half way through that the Egg room shows up and it is the events that occur in this room that have finally gotten my full attention.
I suspect, based on the previous novel's ending, that I'll be pining for that third novel for some answers to unanswered questions.
Enjoying the three main characters. Four if you count Orson(and I suppose you should).
There is something to say about the difference in the way a horror/thriller like this is written that to me often feels like it's plodding along; both books are written about events that take place in a very short period of time and walk the reader through the labyrinth that is Moonlight Bay and to which the needle always falls on the mysterious military base Wyvern that seems to be layers of labyrinths of the weird and macabre that fall deep under the ground and would put any ant-farm to shame.
The suspense gets stretched out and lengthened by the long convoluted path of the character toward the goal that seems to slip farther away at each step while the reader is filled in with the gaps that would be the characters backstory and then the payoff to suspense is usually another clue about how Moonlight Bay and Wyvern work.
It's about half way through that the Egg room shows up and it is the events that occur in this room that have finally gotten my full attention.
I suspect, based on the previous novel's ending, that I'll be pining for that third novel for some answers to unanswered questions.
Enjoying the three main characters. Four if you count Orson(and I suppose you should).
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