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This Week’s Word Is “Divergence.”
Back to novels this week for Word Wednesday and a full-on science fiction tome from Adrian Tchaikovsky. I put off reading this one, fearing it was a little heavy for my current state of mind. This was a big mistake, as The Doors of Eden is a thought-provoking and absorbing read.
What is The Doors of Eden?
The Doors of Eden takes the reader on a journey that’s almost entirely unexpected. I’d love to have seen Tchaikovsky’s route map for this book! It opens with two young women in Cornwall, “cryptid” hunting. They’re following up strange reports of birdmen in the South West of the UK. Something peculiar happens, and one of the women, Mal, goes missing. Lee is left behind, with a strange story to tell and her heart shattered.
The main narrative picks up the action a few years later. Kay, a transgender mathematician, is attacked by far-right thugs the same night Lee receives a phone call from Mal. Worlds collide, literally.
Strings pulling strings and plots within plots are the order of the day in Doors of Eden. The British Secret Service has been monitoring Kay. She is one of the few people in the country able to understand the math behind a high-level encryption algorithm. A…
