Some stories amuse, some stories disturb. Some stories leave a dent in your subconscious.
Christopher Priest’s Inverted World is an exploration of the madness in the intersection of persistence and lethargic existence.
It takes your hand and leads you to the parallelism of hope and despair, leaving you to ponder on the perverted irrelevance of infinity.
It forces you to believe in logic, then immerses you in its desolation. Offers you stability, then bathes you in fragile futility.
Perhaps the easiest explanation as to why Inverted World appealed so much to the small fraction of my uninitiated fanaticism is the faintest hint of the marriage of absolute binaries – how two unimaginable opposites exist in the same volatile thread among the unraveling strings of rationality.
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