Welcome to The Annotated Raw Shark Texts

Fifty percent of memory is devoted not to what has already happened, but to what will happen next.

                                                                                                               -- First Eric Sanderson

FIRST THINGS FIRST, STAY CALM

What follows is an attempt to explore, analyze and annotate some of the intriguing elements of Steven Hall’s innovative The Raw Shark Texts.

Eric Sanderson is jolted awake one morning to discover that he does not know who he is or where he is. All that he has to cling to is a series of letters and packages—which he is warned not to open—signed “with regret and hope” from the First Eric Sanderson. Attacked in his own home by a force he cannot see and memories he cannot ignore—including those of a perfect love now lost—Eric tears open the parcels and discovers he is being relentlessly pursued by a shark that may exist only in his mind that stalks him through the flows and streams of language and human interaction. Hunting the answers as he is hunted, Eric is led on a journey that will either bring the First Eric Sanderson back to life or destroy both Eric Sandersons forever.

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