![]() ![]() The first several chapters of the book only ever hint at the science-fictional premise behind the events taken separately, they are simply adventure stories about a ship on a mission for exploration and profit. The key to the success of Eversion is in Reynolds’ delight in how he describes each setting. ![]() Each time, he dies in some spectacular fashion, and another member of the expedition consistently drops her mask long enough to reveal that she knows something about what Silas is experiencing. Silas lives through similar-yet-subtly-different events over and over as part of an expedition to explore a curious and alien Edifice. It’s a time loop, but it isn’t a time loop. Sorry, a zeppelin bound for-OK, that’s about all I’m going to reveal. Sorry, a steamship bound for the coast of South America. ![]() Silas Coade is the assistant surgeon (well, only surgeon) aboard the Demeter, a sailing ship bound for the coast of Norway. Thanks to Orbit and NetGalley for the eARC! Reynolds takes your classic science-fiction trope of a time loop story, and he spins it just enough to keep things fresh. In Eversion, though space is a part of the setting, time is far more important. A new Alastair Reynolds novel is always a cause for celebration, even if my enjoyment of them is inconsistent. ![]()
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