![]() 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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