Elliott Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Group: the Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing July 15, 2008

The selection this month is 'The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing' by M.T. Anderson. Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. After he opens a forbidden door he learns the hideous nature of their experiments and his own chilling role in them.