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The title had something to do with Minotaurus or Maze. The plot of the book has to do with people waking up in a room with a computer. Each person is alone in the room , but they are able to chat with each other.
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Alexandros
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Dec 18, 2022 03:43PM

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Rose's suggestion of The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin sounds like your book:
Google Books preview:
Kirkus Review:
Google Books preview:
https://books.google.com/books?id=IK7... There are different cover images.
Kirkus Review:
TThe classical myth is reinterpreted with black-comic brio in this odd new novel from the internationally acclaimed Russian author... Marketed as “Mythology”... it’s a computer-age consideration of the meanings incarnated in the Greek adventurer Theseus, the monstrous (half-man, half-bull) Minotaur and the maze in which they meet. The novel’s form is an extended conversation taking place in an Internet chat room, among several e-mailers who are themselves confined within individual mazes that appear to be parts of an encompassing labyrinth...
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