Eversion

De: Alastair Reynolds

Narrado por: Harry Myers

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.

incredible book, wonderful narration

Reynolds is well regarded as one of the best modern science fiction writers, but the inventiveness of this story, which cannot be described without spoilers, absolutely blew me away. It is an unfolding wonder. But the narration is just as remarkable; this is the first audiobook I've listen to where the narrator so successfully pulls off a variety of voices that I at times wondered if there wasn't in fact a full cast. The entire experience was delightful from beginning to end.

Sublime and moving tour de force

The story is original and a true tour de force, the characters real and compelling, and the performance extraordinary. Surely a 2023 Hugo nominee if there is any Justice in the sci-fi universe.

Would have made a better TNG episide

Star Trek has done this story better in three different series. Spirited performance that suffers because the reader doesn't change accents with the various eras the narrator inhabits. The characters sound like crude Victorian stereotypes even in space. Also, his impression of the story's lone woman? Yeeeeesh.

I liked that successive generations of sci-fi get metatextual representation. The pay-off for collapsing that meta-text is weak and melodramatic, and never escapes the gravity of classic sci-fi's acceptance of dominant paradigm cultural tropes as substitutes for character. Neatly predictable with ever-diminishing returns revolving around an incredibly stupid reveal.

That said, I listened to the whole thing.

riveting

loved it. do not ruin the book with a synopsis. a little slow start. pay attention and you will probably love it. I know I did.

Refreshing and modern.

Despite a slow start the story builds up to the kind of scifi I have come to love from mr Reynolds.

I sure hope it’s a future trilogy and that we’ll see the doctor again!