Cloutier

Chuck Cloutier was an author from the 2060s. His writings had so many twists of epic proportions and unlikely poetic justices that his death at the hands of his frustrated readers was judged worthy of his own works.
His works include:
* Antechamber (2061)
* The Maze Series (2063-2065)
** The Foyer (2063)
** The Library (2063)
** The Kitchen (2064)
** The Basement (2064)
** The Vault (2065)
* The Thumb Drive Of Saluko Jones (2066)
* Automatic Death (2066)
* The Earwax Trilogy (2066-2067)
** Earwax (2066)
** Earwaxnarök (2066)
** Guðsearwax (2067)
* The Blue Recruit (2068)
* The Book Reviewer Who Was Found With His Lungs Ripped Out (2068)
* It Stands To Reason (2068)
* The Transhumanist Trilogy (2068-2069)
** H+ (2068)
** Mutagen (2069)
** The Beast of Hollington Grove (2069)
* The Tower of Babel (Unreleased due to the death of the author)
Though Cloutier's Maze Series is considered one of the grand classics of literature, his Transhumanist Trilogy proved so convoluted that a group of his fans calling themselves "The Blue Recruits" (Named for what was generally considered his last great novel) broke into his house and tied him up with a computer power cable. He was tortured for several hours as the Blue Recruits demanded explanations of his final work and its plot holes. When disappointed they gave him papercuts using the handwritten manuscript of The Tower of Babel, which one of the recruits read during the torture, concluding it was "average with some neat chases."
== Spoilers ==
Violet stored several of his books in partitioned memory for the trip to Mars.
== Behind the Scenes ==
Chuck Cloutier is named after Chuck Palahniuk and poker player T. J. Cloutier. It can be assumed Bach was watching The 2007 World Series Of Poker when the scene was written.Category:Characters