The Helmet of Horror

When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the MInotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself. As they fumble their way back to reality through a mesmerising world of abundant information but little knowledge, we are forced to wonder - can technology itself be anything more than a myth?

Author: Victor Pelevin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 05/10/2022
Series: Myths #11
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781841958897
Main Edition

About the Author
Born in Moscow, Victor Pelevin has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Open City and was selected by the New Yorker as one of the 'Best European Writers Under 35' and by the Observer as one of the '21 Writers for the 21st Century'. His novel, Numbers, won the Russian Grigoriev Prize 2004.