![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the story of his book echoes the narrative of his journey aboard the ship Demeter. He gets nightmares in which he sees himself as a skeleton and screams himself awake. Every time he gets close, he has foreboding feelings about dreadful things to come. We also follow Dr Coade on the zeppelin Demeter… and on a space ship… each journey coming to a disastrous end.Īt the heart of the mystery in Eversion there is the fact that the main character, Dr Coade, is writing a book, but he can’t seem to finish his narrative. We also follow Dr Coade aboard the steam ship Demeter in the 19th century on a journey of exploration in southern Patagonia, in search of a sea inlet where some mysterious Edifice is to be found. 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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