Eversion alastair reynolds review7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I don't do more than skim the review to see if I should order it, hence I am always listening to books that I have no clue what they are about. I order books that are written up in the WSJ if they sound good. Narration is superb with excellent character distinction that is quite clear despite heavy accents. While Silas has his last hurrah in this tale, the nature of the edifice or its origins are never fully revealed suggesting the possibility of a future follow-up mission. ![]() Reynolds offers rich and detailed descriptions of the state of art technology for each time period that is complimented with the surgeon also writing a fantasy tale that predicts future states. Each vignette repeats a similar pattern, but advances in time until finally he finds himself in our future out in space, but always in search of the 'edifice.' To say more would reveal too much, but a young mathematician part of the crew plays a central role in divining the 'everted' (the basis for the title) of the structure. Next is an airship heading to Antarctica. The tale narrator is a ship's surgeon (Silas) who is part of a quest for a mysterious 'edifice.' When the story opens, the 'ship' is an 18th century sailing vessel off the coast of Norway, but disaster strikes and the surgeon awakens to finds himself in the same position, on a steamship off Patagonia with similar results. Alastair Reynolds' Eversion is a bit of a departure to his usual space opera extravaganzas. ![]()
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