The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Think pulpy adventures with a hard SF twist, mysteries that infold in strange but tangible ways, characters who need to face the hard truths about themselves they are desperate to forget. I was impressed with the majority of this though and would recommend to anyone slightly interested and it has definitely made his works jump higher in my list of "to-reads".

The story starts with a physician Doctor Silas Coade on a ship Demeter getting a new patient – one of the ship’s crew got hit in the head and is now convulsing – so the good doctor has to do a trepanation to decrease pressure.This sequence repeats in the mid-19th century along the Patagonian coast, in the 1920s with the Demeter (now a dirigible) descending into an aperture towards the Hollow Earth in Antarctica, then as a space vehicle diving into the ocean of a Jovian moon. But readers more interested in the characters and the emotional core of the story will also enjoy this one. The narrative is told from the point of view of Dr Coade, the Demeter's surgeon, along with a number of suitably disparate characters (one with a name surely intended to bring A.

There is something crisply precise about his writing, even when stylized along the 19th century lines with a steampunk flavoring and a set of what seem to be alternate realities, all converging into a story that makes sense despite initial touch of confusion.

I read an advance Digital Review Copy of Eversion in an ebook format, which I received from Orbit Books through netgalley. The surface plot – as exciting as it is – is scaffolding, a misdirection away from the real mystery lying beneath. This does sound very different from anything else I’ve read by him and I’d very much like to give it a try. Silas is a well-written protagonist with compelling internal conflict, but you only get the full picture once the book is complete, so it’s hard to judge at first.

The story moves from sailing ship to steam ship to air ship and onward, all with the same crew and the same mission.Reynolds has always been deft at summoning the spirits of his fellow science fiction and fantasy authors, while using his own ideas and style; as Javier Martinez noted in a 2012 review, “Reynolds engages in rich dialogue with the ‘megatext’ of ideas that comprises the genre. Silas lives through similar-yet-subtly-different events over and over as part of an expedition to explore a curious and alien Edifice. If any of them are to survive, then he will have to take the exploration - and their lives - into his own hands .