Eversion

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So the crew of Demeter realize they are not the first to reach the Edifice after all, and anger centers on Topolsky, who has concealed the previous expedition from everyone else. Only Silas begins to piece together the resemblances from one version of events to the next, but he has just a few flashes of memory. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

In fact, the first chapter of Century Rain was included after the conclusion of this novel as a teaser. Reynolds demonstrates his writing skill to great effect in yet another twisty timeline shifting story. But even beyond that, there’s just an epicness to the difference pieces that make up this novel, from the harrowing maritime setting of the 1800s, to the steampunkish elements of adventure aboard an early twentieth century airship, and finally to the high-tech starship in the vast expanse of outer space. We start Eversion on a nineteenth century sailing ship, looking for a strange fissure in the sub-Atlantic ice that is thought to lead to a vast, mysterious structure. Needless to say it is a weaving of narrative, a slow coming together of strands to a truer view of what actually going on.The expedition, in its various permutations, is the brainchild of the wealthy and ruthless Topolsky who hopes to make a fortune through the discovery of the Edifice and unearthing its treasures.

Humanity, personhood, self-delusion, the question of what being alive means — all this is touched upon and is unexpectedly poignant. Silas begins to have dreams and flashbacks, and exclaims, “A ship is a dream of whispers, the dead man said. I read the book blurb, took a good look at the cover (blue version) and googled Eversion, which led me to watch animations of what sphere eversion could look like.I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. Then he turned directly to SFF as an amazing medium for re-envisioning the mind and the worlds it creates. The crew begs him for new installments, but his work is criticized mercilessly by the unexplained passenger Milady Ada Cossile, who instructs Silas on the finer points of etymology and pushes him to improve his memory. The voyages of adventure and exploration into the unknown are reminiscent of Jules Verne, mixed with some Lovecraftian, eldritch aspects and elements of horror.

This story is, at its core, a mystery — Silas attempting to unravel the anomalies in his experience of reality and the unknown artifact while trying to keep his crew and friends alive. The time and technologies shift in each case, but we always encounter the same set of characters in a series of narrations by Dr. I think the author did a great job at making the main character feel real and portray how many others would respond under similar circumstances. At every stage of this mystery, Reynolds describes the technologies of the various vessels in great detail as well as the increasingly sophisticated instrumentation and mathematics for pinpointing and identifying the big, dumb object that proves so elusive to the explorers.

It’s odd and weird and compelling, a story of denial and acceptance, friendship and hard ethical choices.

It starts out as an 1800s nautical tale of an assistant surgeon as part of a crew seeking to find a location off the coast of Norway. A very unpredictable book that I thoroughly enjoyed because of the amazing performance on the audiobook. A good part of its delight is the scraping away of layers through the stories iteration to discover what is really happening with the mission.Sailing on the Demeter, he first describes a treacherous journey through the icy narrow passages of the Norwegian straits as the expedition seeks a mysterious construct known as the Edifice. Silas Coade is the assistant surgeon (well, only surgeon) aboard the Demeter, a sailing ship bound for the coast of Norway. What does a sailing ship off the coast of Norway in the 1800s, a exploration zeppelin in the Antarctic in the 1900s, and a space ship seeking alien life in the far flung future all have in common? I'm reminded of some of his very best short fiction in these pages, a huge-concept piece written adroitly, and in the end, he gives us a great psychological knife-twist. This tale is set over a number of different time periods all involving Dr Silas Coade and each version echoes the other.