Dweller

Dweller may refer to:

Dweller (novel)

Dweller is a 2010 horror novel by Jeff Strand. The novel was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2010. A limited edition hardcover version of the book was released by Dark Regions Press in July 2010, and a paperback version was released by Leisure Books in April 2010.

Plot

When Toby Floren was eight years old, he discovered a monster living in the woods behind his house. A ghastly, frightening creature with claws, fangs, and a taste for human flesh. As he ran out of the forest, screaming, Toby felt that he'd been lucky to escape with his life.

Years later, Toby finds comfort with the creature. It's his own special secret-something that nobody else in the world knows about. Somebody to talk to. Somebody to confide in. Sure, Toby has concerns about his own sanity, but really, what boy wouldn't want to be best friends with a monster in the woods, especially if he's being tormented by bullies? The creature, who he names Owen, may be the answer to his problems...

Dweller (Banks)

Dwellers are a fictional species featured in The Algebraist, a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks.

As described in the novel, Dwellers are extremely long-lived inhabitants of gas giant planets (like Jupiter, although that particular planet is described in the book as not having enough water for them).

Anatomy

Immature Dwellers are described as anorexic manta rays and stay in this form for about a century. Adult Dwellers are described as consisting of two discs, similar to a yo-yo, with various appendages at edges and hubs including two long spindle arms. They are large in adulthood, with small examples being about five meters in diameter and larger examples ranging up to ten meters. They are neutrally buoyant in a gas giant's atmosphere, and move by rotation of their disks, called "roting".

Their long lifespan (individuals can live for billions of years, the species has existed for ten billion) has made them anarchic and wise. They use the idea of kudos to define their sense of value within a society, and will trade or bet kudos like money. They claim that they have existed since the "First Diaspora", roughly two and a half billion years after the creation of the universe.