6/21/2023 0 Comments Eversion alastair reynolds![]() The team will all die unless Coade can face a startling truth about himself. As Coade struggles with overlapping memories of past expeditions, he slowly realizes that the stories he's telling obscure the real crisis: an alien space probe has crashed into a subterranean ocean and has captured the human members of a team trying to explore that ocean. After another death, he's on a dirigible entering the Hollow Earth through a crater in Antarctica. ![]() But then the same narrator is on a steamship a century later looking for a fissure off the coast of South America. Narrator Silas Coade, an anxious young assistant surgeon, starts the novel on a little sloop sailing up the coast of Norway in the 1800s, searching for a fissure in the cliffs said to contain a mysterious "Edifice." Along the way, Coade dies. ![]() Much of the fun in this vigorous space opera from Reynolds (Terminal World) comes from figuring out the tricks of the twisty plot. ![]()
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