Information: - The End of Mr. Y is a novel by British author Scarlett Thomas . The book tells the story of Ariel Manto , a PhD student who has been researching the 19th century writer Thomas Lumas . She finds an extremely rare copy of Lumas ' novel The End of Mr. Y in a second - hand bookshop . The book is rumoured to be cursed - everyone who has read it has died not long afterwards . Central to Lumas ' book is the '' Troposphere '' -- a place where all consciousness is connected and you can enter other people 's minds and read their thoughts . The book contains the recipe for a homeopathic formula that Lumas ' hero uses to enter the Troposphere . Manto uses the recipe to reproduce the formula and subsequently enters the Troposphere herself . The book mentions that her surname is fictitious and based on an anagram ; Ariel Manto is an anagram of I am not real . As have Janette Turner Hospital and Andrew Crumey , the writer explores the relationships between quantum physics and post-modernist and deconstructionist theory . The description of the Troposphere has been compared to the novels of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson , and shares similarities to The Matrix.It was long - listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008,sold 150,000 copies , and won a Nibbie award for best cover . - Scarlett Thomas (born 1972 in Hammersmith) is an English author. She has written nine novels, including "The End of Mr. Y" and "PopCo", and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent. - PopCo (2004) is a novel by British author Scarlett Thomas. It tells a story of twenty-nine-year-old Alice Butler, a quirky, fiercely intelligent loner with an affinity for secret codes and mathematics. She works for the huge toy company named PopCo, where she creates snooping kids' kits - KidSpy, KidTec and KidCracker. At the company conference Alice and her colleagues are brought into developing the ultimate product for the teenage girls. - Hammersmith is a district in west London, located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. - The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC or Cantuar. for post-nominals) is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1965 and is recognised as a Beloff's plate glass university. It is a member of the Santander Network of European universities encouraging social and economic development, Association of Commonwealth Universities and Universities UK. What entity does 'the end of mr. y' has the relation 'follows' with?
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popco