Clarke and Isaac Asimov followed by 1960s and ’70s new wave. Wells, then a sort of early pulp sleuth thing.” That would have been followed by classic space opera and episodes in the styles of Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. And then it was going to go into sort of Jules Verne and then maybe a bit of H.G. Reynolds says his original intention with Eversion was to “recap the entire history of science fiction … We were going to start in a kind of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe mode. Is the story a book he is writing, a delusion, a series of alternate realities or something else? Adding to the mystery is the reader’s dependence on a first-person narrator Silas Coade, the expedition’s physician. The story is a puzzle, challenging the reader to figure out which if any place and time is real. The novel starts on a tall ship in the early 1800s in waters in the Arctic, then jumps to a paddle-steamer near the Antarctic, then a dirigible over Antarctica, and eventually concludes in the future on a submarine-like explorer under the ice of Europa, the Jupiter moon. In Alastair Reynolds’ Eversion(Orbit, 2022), the setting keep changing-the epoch, location, and technology-but the characters remain more or less the same as they carry out an expedition to a mysterious object at the behest of a private investor.
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