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Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Harry Myers
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From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact.

In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again. Science Fiction Space Opera Space Exploration Adventure Interstellar Fiction Hard Science Fiction
Mind-blowing Twists • Imaginative Concept • Masterful Character Voices • Satisfying Ending • Compelling Mystery

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Alastair Reynolds' Eversion is a bit of a departure to his usual space opera extravaganzas. 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. Next is an airship heading to Antarctica. 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.

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. 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.

Narration is superb with excellent character distinction that is quite clear despite heavy accents. Pacing is smooth and brisk.

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This is a beautiful, brilliant book from start to finish. The performance was top notch, one of the best narrators I’ve heard. I found myself just sitting and listening to this book a lot because I didn’t want to miss a second of it. I wish it were longer!

Wow

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Harry Meyers has a voice like honied silk, and brings the mastery of Alastair Reynolds work to a new level. What a fabulous piece

And I thought John Lee was the best

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Ultimately a story of what it is to be a person. Interesting way to mix sci-fi and historical storytelling. Narrator did a great job especially conveying main character’s conflicts. I do suggest patience because there is quite a bit of necessary repetition. I listened to this in half hour spurts going to and from work and that kept it fresh for me

Interesting genre time bending tale

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This was really great. I recommend it to anyone interested in science fiction and historical fiction. 👍👍

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