As in both those novels, Reynolds’s book features layers of reality and false reality, larded with epistemological and ontological and psychological conundrums, which get gradually stripped away until we reach “the truth,” such as it might be. The two PKD novels most relevant are Ubik and Eye in the Sky.
And yet that is just what he delivers, delightfully, in his latest outing.
Dick, nor of being prone to write an homage to that master of SF metaphysical surrealism. But I never suspected him of having any great fondness for the work of Philip K. (US edition Orbit 978-0316462822, 352pp,$17.99 August 2022.)Īlistair Reynolds is a grand writer with many arrows in his quiver.
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