![]() ![]() Decades later, he also finds himself aboard a zeppelin or a spacecraft on a version of the same mission in the Antarctic or among the moons of Jupiter. Here is what is revealed on the back cover and in the first few chapters: in the early 19th century, the narrator, ship’s surgeon Silas Coade, awakens on a “fifth-rate sloop,” part of an expedition searching for a mysterious artifact along the icy, far-northern Norwegian coast. I can, however, safely say that Eversion is quite unlike most of Reynolds’s previous work–that is, it is not a Stapledonian future-history or space-operatic epic along the lines of the Revelation Space or Revenger sequences, though it might be a distant cousin to Century Rain. The book in question is Alastair Reynolds’ Eversion, a novel designed to promote puzzlement, and in fact to be a puzzle as much as a story, which means that a too-specific description could interfere with a significant part of the analytical and unravelling pleasures on offer. The strange shuffling sound you will be hearing is a reviewer tiptoeing around a text filled with spoiler trapdoors. ![]()
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