Sci-fi

A Field Guide to Reality

by Joanna Kavenna
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Description

Eliade Jencks knows the only reason people call at midnight is to tell you someone has died. Professor Solete was one of her few friends. Perhaps her only friend. But his friends don't think much of her - a vague, scruffy waitress, impatient with philosophical onanism at parties. Naturally, they're horrified to find out that Solete has left her his Field Guide to Reality. The Guide has taken on legendary proportions among the celebrated minds of Oxford. The work of a lifetime, it purportedly advances Solete's great philosophical Theory of Everything and even defines the very nature of reality. A big, important book. Only, they can't find it. So, baffled, grieving, and slightly annoyed, Eliade sets out on a quest for the missing manuscript, and falls down a rabbit-hole of metaphysical possibility. From a psychotropic tea party to the Priests of the Quantum Realm, she trips her way through Solete's wonderland reality and, without quite meaning to, bursts open the boundaries of her own.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
CombatPacifist/Social
HorrorCreepy
SpiceFade-to-Black
ProfanityModerate

Details

First published
July 7, 2016
Pages
304
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Series
Standalone

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