Eversion reynolds6/20/2023 ![]() I could talk about mathematics and the definition of eversion and all the wacky business that goes on when you try to turn a sphere inside out. ![]() ![]() Or, at least, good hard science fiction does. A brilliant thing about hard science fiction is that it raises all sorts of interesting questions. There’s a lot that I could talk about with “ Eversion” by Alastair Reynolds. “Read the last page first!” “No, read the first page first!” “ I want to see how they get there,” she said. I didn’t understand her answer right away - it took me years to know what she meant. She was an English teacher and voracious reader, and I asked her once why she would want to read the ending of a book first. People hate to hear this, but I’m the kind of person who reads the last few pages of book before I start it. And how to stop it all from happening again. And it’s up to him to figure out why and how. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. ![]() In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. ![]()
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