Eversion

My second book by this author and I loved it! Silas is a doctor on a sailing ship off the coast of Norway searching for an exploration ship that went there before. But Silas is also on a zeppelin exploring an icy canyon in Antarctica. And Silas is on a spaceship that has set out to find an alien arti......more

Alastair Reynold's new standalone novel is a real keeper. At first, I thought it was a homage to Cloud Atlas by way of Dan Simmon's Terror, but after getting much farther along, I've got to say that its title gives it all away. And pleasantly so. Eversion: not to be confused with inversion, is a fanc......more

Eversion is a thoroughly compelling and chilling near future space mystery that feels a bit like some of the best reality warping parts of a Philip K. Dick novel (Ubik comes to mind most readily) along with the mysterious foreboding and wonder of a cryptic alien artifact from a sci-fi classic like A......more

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"The monster you don’t think you’re capable of becoming, you already have." It begins on a nineteenth century sailing ship, with a Captain Ahab-like obsession, searching for a strange fissure in the ice that will lead to a mysterious structure. The sense of foreboding builds as the ship gets ever ne......more