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The White Rooms (Paperback)

by Tim Bragg (Author)
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  • Paperback: 182 pages
  • Publisher: Lulu.com (30 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 141165725X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1411657250
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 654,747 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Adam appears to lead a perfect life but his marriage is in trouble, he's gambled 'credit' away and can't afford 'shots' to protect him from subearth's disease. With his wife pregnant, a beautiful sub-girl called Zee asks for help. Thus begins Adam's terrifying descent into forbidden lands and relationships...

Excerpted from White Rooms, The by Tim Bragg. Copyright © 2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
The wind forced me to stoop as I headed for the town. Great banks of dirty-grey clouds scudded through the air. This air smelt different - the light was different. I thought of happier times back in Upper. Of the serenity I (we) had found in weekend retreats. Back in Upper I recalled trips to the coast, near the sanatoria where the neurotics and pimps went. Where the underhand business was carried on. But it had only been mild stuff. Hadn’t affected us.

As I walked I thought about the children I had condemned to the White Rooms. Babies like Adam had been signed over to their death. I knew what happened there. Most Uppers who took any notice of anything knew. For dag’s sake we knew. But still there were the myths - the myths of the "Saintly Children", carried by winged and sailed boats to the islands. The islands off the coast, in the mist, shrouded in denser legend. Islands that, in fact, were the homes to the convicts, typhoid and diphtheria - to small pox and the new-death (a disease preferable to the disease). The disease none had named was kept to the subs. Kept to the subs and the White Rooms. And to the Uppers who went down.

I thought about all those who I had put on the Register, thinking only exile to subearth was their destiny. If the ex-doctor was correct then they were all hunted down. Perhaps even the tales of the catchers were true. We lived in a world where so much good was being done that I found it hard to think of a darker alternative. But it was also true that the Eloluc (the elite members of the founding Upper families; high government and military) were in constant perfect health, mind and body. All of us knew about the grown body-parts - but perhaps something more sinister was going on? Upper was a world of schizophrenics.

Once I had hoped to be an Eloluc. Jo’s father had missed his chance because he had married out. And perhaps he had been over-zealous on his campaigns. But the Upper world worked. It ran smoothly, it kept out the disease. And if one thinks logically then it was better that the children went to the White Rooms rather than...went through the anguish of the disease itself. This was the way I thought. As cold as the wind that blew. Little had I realised that I could never be an Eloluc.

Casting my mind back to the long-huts, I saw again the rows of perfect bodies and trapped eyes. But this time as I looked down on their faces; each frozen face was a face I knew. I stopped briefly, checked the digital for information. How was it that the helpers were allowed to serve but the children were...were, "evacuated"? This thought ran through my head, yet I knew the answer. The helpers had never developed the disease; could sniff out the crawlies; the children could have had the disease without anyone knowing. It was the stuff of nightmares, but true. The children could harbour the disease for their first five years without showing symptoms. We knew. Before the split into the two worlds, mothers who gave milk passed on the disease - mothers who had the disease passed it to their children. Blood got into the chain from routine blood tests and inoculations (when needles were more commonly used). Accidents happened. Children bit and scratched. Children fought. It only needed one incident to get into the sex-chain and...I took a deep breath. Part of my family had died as a result of one such spread. Before the split these things were not uncommon. Before the split every resource was used. And then it seemed simple - to divide, to separate. We had been separated for a long, long time.


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4.0 out of 5 stars bragg gets better, 20 Jan 2006
Tim Bragg writes intelligent adult fiction. That's important to know. What I mean is that he doesn't gloss over set pieces and he makes sure that his characters don't waste time on the page. His writing is concise and thought provoking (as fiction should be but isn't always) and he tends to shun super hero type protagonists in favour for the average man.
Indentifying and then ultimately rooting for his characters has therefore always been easy. The reader also can understand the root cause for what drives his novels forward and that is the continual quest for freedom of mind, spirit and body.
Not one to retread old ground his latest novel jumps genre and raises the action. As a futuristic thriller Bragg has created a world of opposites, of people who are blessed and people who are down in the dark and living a life on the edge of humanity and existence.
The White Rooms is a cleverly paced novel that fans of Philip K. Dick should enjoy.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The White Rooms by TPBragg, 17 Jul 2009
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Using the genre of Science Fiction Horror, Tim Bragg imagines a world divided in two by a disease for which the antedote is only available to an elite - whilst the remaining population of Bragg's created planet suffer its zombie-fying effects. The division between the two worlds are blurred as the disease-free of the underclass are set to work as servants to the elite. And it is within this overlap that records-keeper Adam X find himself unwittingly drawn to assist a young 'helper', that leads to exile from his privileged life and confrontation of the horrors of the 'real' world.
A social comment? A parable? Or a ripping yarn? That is up to the reader to decide as he is swept along by this fast-paced, inventive and thought-provoking novel.
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