1,000 stars.Review of Eversion by Alastair Reynolds Fiction Reviews There are about 7 characters and you are never lost as to who is speaking, and he does not murder the female voice as some male narrators tend to do. Obviously I cannot say enough enthusiastic things about this book - just get it, oh, and the narrator Harry Myers should get some type of reading award. All of a sudden when I was on chapter 21 I got what this book was about and I swear I did this - I went back to chapter 1 and started it again! It was that blow-away brilliant. What happened to me was that I was multitasking like always when listening to a book - so not concentrating or listening very well - at all.

This is going to sound like a bad review but I swear this book may be the most imaginative book I have ever read, it sets a new precedent in SF the way that Dune did, the way that LOTR did, the way Harry Potter did. And I often skip around to books in my library when I need breaks. I listen to about 170 books a year, I might be one of Audible's best customers. I don't do more than skim the review to see if I should order it, hence I am always listening to books that I have no clue what they are about. I order books that are written up in the WSJ if they sound good. Narration is superb with excellent character distinction that is quite clear despite heavy accents. While Silas has his last hurrah in this tale, the nature of the edifice or its origins are never fully revealed suggesting the possibility of a future follow-up mission. Reynolds offers rich and detailed descriptions of the state of art technology for each time period that is complimented with the surgeon also writing a fantasy tale that predicts future states. Each vignette repeats a similar pattern, but advances in time until finally he finds himself in our future out in space, but always in search of the 'edifice.' To say more would reveal too much, but a young mathematician part of the crew plays a central role in divining the 'everted' (the basis for the title) of the structure. Next is an airship heading to Antarctica. The tale narrator is a ship's surgeon (Silas) who is part of a quest for a mysterious 'edifice.' When the story opens, the 'ship' is an 18th century sailing vessel off the coast of Norway, but disaster strikes and the surgeon awakens to finds himself in the same position, on a steamship off Patagonia with similar results. Alastair Reynolds' Eversion is a bit of a departure to his usual space opera extravaganzas.

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