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4.1 • 130 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Much of the fun in this vigorous space opera from Reynolds (Terminal World) comes from figuring out the tricks of the twisty plot. Narrator Silas Coade, an anxious young assistant surgeon, starts the novel on a little sloop sailing up the coast of Norway in the 1800s, searching for a fissure in the cliffs said to contain a mysterious "Edifice." Along the way, Coade dies. But then the same narrator is on a steamship a century later looking for a fissure off the coast of South America. After another death, he's on a dirigible entering the Hollow Earth through a crater in Antarctica. As Coade struggles with overlapping memories of past expeditions, he slowly realizes that the stories he's telling obscure the real crisis: an alien space probe has crashed into a subterranean ocean and has captured the human members of a team trying to explore that ocean. The team will all die unless Coade can face a startling truth about himself. Reynolds packs plenty of emotion into this mind-bending plot as Coade struggles to do the right/human thing. The result is an excellent adventure that's sure to keep readers on their toes.
Customer Reviews
A recurring search that becomes a self exploration
A recurring search that becomes a self exploration.
It is almost too repetitive at first. There is just enough development to hold interest until the action begins to happen. The protagonist is a military doctor helping on the search for a strange artifact. It has become an all consuming search that repeats. over centuries of scientific progress.
Great novel, terrible proofing
Great as always from Alastair Reynolds. But the publisher does his work a severe disservice. Why is the digital edition of a book published this year full of typos and punctuation errors?
Tedious
I’ve never met a Reynolds piece that I wasn’t intrigued by and finished without any questions. This, however, was tedious. I love the author and really wanted to finish this book, as I can’t stand the idea if not finishing a book that I’ve started. However, I just couldn’t get through this one.