![]() ![]() ![]() Is the story a book he is writing, a delusion, a series of alternate realities or something else? ![]() Adding to the mystery is the reader’s dependence on a first-person narrator Silas Coade, the expedition’s physician. The story is a puzzle, challenging the reader to figure out which if any place and time is real. The novel starts on a tall ship in the early 1800s in waters in the Arctic, then jumps to a paddle-steamer near the Antarctic, then a dirigible over Antarctica, and eventually concludes in the future on a submarine-like explorer under the ice of Europa, the Jupiter moon. In Alastair Reynolds’ Eversion(Orbit, 2022), the setting keep changing-the epoch, location, and technology-but the characters remain more or less the same as they carry out an expedition to a mysterious object at the behest of a private investor. ![]()
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