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The title character of this novel contracts a skin disease called “dragonhide” before being swallowed by the earth and waking up in a kind of hospital that uses incurable patients for power and food. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which another character, Duncan Thaw, calmly anticipates an apocalyptic ending while sitting in a hilltop cemetery after meeting his creator, Alasdair Gray.
ANSWER: Lanark [or Lanark: A Life in Four Books]
[10m] Lanark is largely set in Unthank, a dystopian version of this city devoid of daylight. This city is the setting of Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain and James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late.
ANSWER: Glasgow
[10e] Gray wrote Lanark a decade before Poor Things, a send-up of this Mary Shelley novel about a scientist who reanimates dead matter.
ANSWER: Frankenstein [or Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus]
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