We follow Dr Silas Coade, a surgeon aboard the sailing ship Demeter in the 18th century on a journey of exploration to the northern reaches of Norway, in search of a fissure in the rocky coast that leads to a hidden lagoon where some mysterious Edifice is to be found. There is a puzzle in this book that is embedded in the very structure of its narrative and the whole book needs reading to understand what is going on. And indeed, the back blurb reads as if Reynolds tried to explain his book to Miss Alice from marketing, who understood about half of it. Eversion is a fascinating science fiction novel with a narrative that has a lot of peculiarities – it’s doing a whole lot simultaneously – and is therefore not easy to explain.
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