The Unwritten - Mike Carey
- Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity - Tom Taylor is a minor and reluctant celebrity because his father wrote a series of wildly popular boy-wizard novels starring Tommy Taylor, a character suspiciously similar to his son. When evidence emerges suggesting Tom's own past may be a fabrication, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy involving secret organizations, literary history, and the unsettling possibility that stories may have more power than anyone realizes. Before Tom can get to the bottom of any of his questions, he is framed for a massacre at his father's old house in Switzerland and arrested. As a palate cleanser, this volume ends with a story about Kipling dealing with the powers that be behind stories. [4]
- Inside Man - In prison in France, Tom finds himself rooming with an embedded reporter. With the help of Lizzie, the woman who first mentioned his possibly fabricated past, Tom starts to see that he has the power to make stories real. A sinister power that once worked with Tom's father wants him dead, and in the midst of another massacre the three make their escape to a grim and tragic world, one that never existed. Carey artfully alternates Tom's prison story with that of the prison governor, who has his own problems with the unexpected power of story. Meanwhile, a brand new Tommy Taylor book is about to come out, despite the fact that Wilson Taylor has been dead for years. In on eof the best episodes of the entire run, the interstitial story in this one is about a foul-mouthed rabbit who longs to escape his seemingly idyllic funny-animal world that is sinister underneath the surface. [4]
