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1. Nicholas Binge...Professor Everywhere...
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 11:21 AM
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Professor Everywhere by Nicholas Binge is a sci-fi mystery novel framed as an academic work by a fictional narrator, Chloe Chan, who investigates the enigmatic Professor Roland Crannus, a mythical figure in academia.

The book blends genres, exploring themes of language, memory, and reality through a complex narrative that includes footnotes, fictional bibliographies, and quantum physics concepts like the many-worlds theory. It's a critique of intellectualism and a surreal journey into a labyrinth of conspiracies and alternate realities.

I have read two other books by him …

Ascension is a 2024 speculative thriller about a mysterious mountain that appears in the Pacific Ocean, prompting a team of scientists to climb it, only to find that time, space, and memory warp as they ascend, leading to mind-bending discoveries about humanity, science, and faith. The narrative is framed by the discovery of unsent letters from a lead scientist, Harry Tunmore, and explores themes of human nature, the limits of science, and the sublime. It's been praised as a suspenseful and emotional survival story and is being adapted for film.

And…
Dissolution a science fiction novel about a woman, Maggie, who uses advanced technology to enter her husband Stanley's memories to save him from a mysterious force that is erasing them, uncovering a vast conspiracy that threatens reality itself. The story blends a personal mystery with a larger sci-fi plot involving time loops, memory manipulation, and a secret organization, with themes of memory, identity, and the nature of time. It's described as an "Inception-like

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