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The Inverted World

Christopher Priest

Start date: December 1, 2015

Finish date: February 29, 2016

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Dec 26, 2015 Rosemary rated it really liked it · review of another edition

On a planet with a bizarrely-shaped sun, a whole mechanical city has to be pulled along tracks that are laid and pulled up as it passes, or dire consequences will ensue.
When Helward Mann is made an apprentice Future Surveyor, he’s looking forward to being out there planning the best route for the city to follow. It’s tough keeping it on track at close to the optimum point in the time-space continuum. It’s even harder to keep the oath he swore to tell no one about his work – when it’s his new wif ...more

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Sep 27, 2015 Sam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Wow. It isn't often that I read hard sci-fi, and even less frequently that I'm blown away by the genre, but this one did it. Priest has written a wonderful, unique novel, with just the right amount of scientific(ish) details to make it seem realistic. The concept is wholly original, and I loved every single page.

The narrative style of switching perspectives between not just characters but between first and third person is something that I don't think I've never seen done in any other novel. It ...more

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