The Weaver Fish - Edeson, Robert
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When linguist Edvard Tø ssentern vanishes into thin air in pursuit of an obsession, his companion Anna Camenes flies to the Ferendes to look for him. There, Edvard's colleagues are increasingly disturbed by nefarious activities taking place around their research station. When a second man goes missing, intelligence analyst Richard Worse joins the investigation. Together, they will face cold-hearted villainy - and mysteries more baffling than the mind can conjure.

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When linguist Edvard Tø ssentern vanishes into thin air in pursuit of an obsession, his companion Anna Camenes flies to the Ferendes to look for him. There, Edvard's colleagues are increasingly disturbed by nefarious activities taking place around their research station. When a second man goes missing, intelligence analyst Richard Worse joins the investigation. Together, they will face cold-hearted villainy - and mysteries more baffling than the mind can conjure.
Autorenporträt
Robert Edeson was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Christ Church Grammar School, the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge. He has been a consultant anaesthetist and researcher, publishing in the neuroscience, biophysical and mathematical literatures.
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'The Weaver Fish is fiendishly clever. It brings together so many threads its hard to know where to start. From hurricane-proof hats to a mysterious bird of prey that's perhaps not what it seems, to a thriller subplot somehow tied to financing Margaret River wineries and illegal Chinese logging on a remote island, it all links together, somehow. Many of the quirky characters have punny, aptronymic names that serve to amuse and confuse in equal measure, as do numerous suggestions peppered throughout the narrative that some (or all) of what is going on may well be an elaborate academic hoax. Everything in this intellectual puzzle of a book is underpinned by brilliantly realised but, we can only presume, entirely made-up science, linguistics, psychiatry, history and geography, complete with extensive endnotes. Its a novel unlike anything you've read before, but will provide hours of brain-food to those who enjoy being challenged by authors such as Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges,Neal Stephenson or David Mitchell. It would certainly make for a discussion-stimulating bookclub read. 4.5 from 5 stars!' Books + Publishing

'Evocative writing, in which the science is an essential character. The ideas stimulate and mesmerise' ABC Radio's The Science Show

'This could possibly be described as one of the cleverest books ever' Bailieborough Library Reading Group

'Unique ... The Weaver Fish is not merely ambitious but unclassifiable' Australian Book Review

'The Weaver Fish is both thriller and intellectual exercise, cyberpunk and philosophy' A Bookish Type

'The Weaver Fish is seriously good fun, and once you get the joke, tremendously clever' ANZ Lit Lovers
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