The Weaver Fish

by Robert Edeson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781760992767
Publisher:	Fremantle Press
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Edition description:	Second edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

04/25/2016
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 Tøssentern 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)

Publishers Weekly

Fiendishly clever . . . a novel unlike anything you’ve read before.”  —Tim Coronel, Books+Publishing

“Evocative writing, in which the science is an essential character. The ideas stimulate and mesmerize.”  —Robyn Williams, ABC Radio National, The Science Show

“That Edeson can balance action clichés with gorgeous scientific asides is proof of his unique gifts.”  —Australian Book Review

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