The weaver fish

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Described as 'fiendishly clever' by Books+Publishing, The Weaver Fish incorporates mathematics and science into a thrilling plotline.

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

A novel about friendship and morality, epigenetics, mathematics, linguistics, aviation, condors, gloomy lift shafts, a tornado-proof Texan hat, and more.

Puzzle or pastiche? A unique, stimulating genre mash-up, The Weaver Fish is a mischievous, intriguing and playful debut novel from an Australian science professor.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Australian anesthetist Edeson's enigmatic debut opens with an edited version of an address delivered to a Cambridge University society regarding the piranha-like fish of the title, for which there are more "words than reported sightings." Chapter two dwells on an unusually designed London building, from a window of which was found hanging in 1963 the dead body of a Soviet Embassy attaché. Chapter three includes portions of an interview from the magazine Aviation Reviews with aeronautical engineer Walter Reckles, the author of a controversial book on surviving a midair collision, which maintains that passengers could pilot "aircraft fragments, particularly a wing, safely back to Earth." Eventually, something of a focus emerges concerning the disappearance of the Norwegian-British logician, linguist and dream theorist Edvard Tossentern in a research balloon over the South China Sea. Edeson leavens this whimsical academic send-up with endnotes full of fictional mathematical equations, but readers will struggle to figure out how everything connects. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.