I gorged myself on stuff like this in middle school and I found I had a soft spot for it, even if sometimes the pacing was slow and the characters seemed lower dimensional (if that's a pun, it counts as intended). I do wish he'd left out the math if he wasn't really going to go into it (pet peeve, I...
Ostensibly this is a book exploring the nature of a world that exists in a different geometry but underlying a number of social and psycological themes are explored.The story follows the protagonist as he starts his apprentiship and is first introduced to the strange nature of the world he inhabits ...
Inverted World is one of the most psychologically complex SF novels I have read. A city exists in a 3 dimensional space at the intersection point of two 2 dimensional universes; but the intersection point is shifting so in an incredible feat of engineering the city is dragged forward on rails in or...
My book club selection for February.I was a little psyched to read this, because it's written by the sameauthor that the movie The Prestige was written by - but I didn'tperceive any similarities.This is definitely an "idea" book (as opposed to a plot- orcharacter-driven book). The author saw some di...
So, we know from Einstein that space and time are both part of a larger concept that unifies them, and moreover that spacetime is curved. Much to his credit, Christopher Priest manages to turn this observation into a metaphor which forms the basis of an imaginative, well-written science-fiction nove...
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