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Huset mellom natt og dag #3
Den lengste dagen
Alt peker mot Oslo. Den forbudte byen, avstengt fra omverden i over 20 år. Hva skjuler seg i de overgrodde ruinene? Ingen vet helt sikkert, annet enn at noe lever der. Noe som ikke er helt menneskelig har gjort den tilsynelatende ubeboelige byen til sin egen.
På sin ferd mot Oslo har Marko Eldfell, en ettersøkt biomodifisert soldat, gjennomgått sin egen forandring. En transformasjon som sakte visker ut skille mellom menneske og maskin.
Har han fremdeles en fri vilje? Tar han sine egne valg, eller er han en brikke i et spill han ikke forstår? Svarene Marko søker, finnes i Oslo.
Vil sannheten sette ham fri, eller utslette ham?
På sin ferd mot Oslo har Marko Eldfell, en ettersøkt biomodifisert soldat, gjennomgått sin egen forandring. En transformasjon som sakte visker ut skille mellom menneske og maskin.
Har han fremdeles en fri vilje? Tar han sine egne valg, eller er han en brikke i et spill han ikke forstår? Svarene Marko søker, finnes i Oslo.
Vil sannheten sette ham fri, eller utslette ham?
- GenresScience Fiction
419 pages, Hardcover
Published October 21, 2019
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January 10, 2020
Så kom den til slutt ... Tredje og siste bok i sciense fiction serien om det biomodefiserte mennesket Marko Eldfell. Vi har ventet lenge på «Den lengste dagen». Det er tre år siden andre bok «Speilets bakside» kom og fem år siden serien startet med «Huset mellom natt og dag». Jeg har vært ekstatisk og euforisk i mine anmeldelser av de to første bøkene. De er så vanvittig godt skrevet at jeg ble helt mo i knærne. Hva så med siste kapittel ...? Svaret er ja, men ikke helt uten innsigelser denne gangen.
Problemet er at forfatteren gaper over et ekstremt vanskelig konsept i siste bok. For oss som har karakterer snublende nær stryk i fysikk fra videregående, så er dette svært utfordrende lesing. Å løse opp begrepet tid som en fast lineær faktor, gjennom dimensjonsdører som gjør at mennesker og hybrider befinner seg i ulike tidskapsler, er særdeles krevende. Døde mennesker lever, for så å dø, men fremdeles eksistere i parallelle dimensjoner. Jeg holder følge et stykke på vei, men til slutt går det helt i surr, og jeg må dessverre si at jeg forsto ingenting mot slutten.
Å jobbe med parallelle dimensjoner og samtidig løse opp begrep som tid, død, menneske, maskin, virtuell kunstig intelligens, sjel og personlighetskontroll er vanskelig uten å miste leseren på veien. Det er som vanlig gnistrende godt skrevet, et helt vanvittig eventyr med twister og turner som fillerister deg som leser, og et heseblesende tempo som moser deg til veggs gjennom samfulle 420 sider. Men, jeg har ikke master i kvantefysikk, og da skar det seg i opprullingen. For science fiction sjangerens blodfans tror jeg likevel det å løse opp tid og rom er mer vante ganger å bevege seg i, så dette tar jeg på min uerfarne kappe. Uansett så er disse tre bøkene en påle inn i norsk SCI-fi historie. Stående applaus fra meg!
Problemet er at forfatteren gaper over et ekstremt vanskelig konsept i siste bok. For oss som har karakterer snublende nær stryk i fysikk fra videregående, så er dette svært utfordrende lesing. Å løse opp begrepet tid som en fast lineær faktor, gjennom dimensjonsdører som gjør at mennesker og hybrider befinner seg i ulike tidskapsler, er særdeles krevende. Døde mennesker lever, for så å dø, men fremdeles eksistere i parallelle dimensjoner. Jeg holder følge et stykke på vei, men til slutt går det helt i surr, og jeg må dessverre si at jeg forsto ingenting mot slutten.
Å jobbe med parallelle dimensjoner og samtidig løse opp begrep som tid, død, menneske, maskin, virtuell kunstig intelligens, sjel og personlighetskontroll er vanskelig uten å miste leseren på veien. Det er som vanlig gnistrende godt skrevet, et helt vanvittig eventyr med twister og turner som fillerister deg som leser, og et heseblesende tempo som moser deg til veggs gjennom samfulle 420 sider. Men, jeg har ikke master i kvantefysikk, og da skar det seg i opprullingen. For science fiction sjangerens blodfans tror jeg likevel det å løse opp tid og rom er mer vante ganger å bevege seg i, så dette tar jeg på min uerfarne kappe. Uansett så er disse tre bøkene en påle inn i norsk SCI-fi historie. Stående applaus fra meg!
April 19, 2021
The story from the previous two books requires resolution in massive amounts, and this, the final book, delivers with futuristic tipper lorries.
Den lengste dagen (translation: The Longest Day) did indeed need to be quite long to tie up all of the threads from the previous two books, and also a few new threads which itself added on top. The amount of twists and explanations it has rivals the TV-series Lost, but where Lost had a very poor ratio between which plot points were resolved and which weren’t, the Huset mellom natt og dag (translation: The House Between Night and Day) series only has two threads left untied by the end (as far as I could tell), everything else is dealt with satisfactorily. Curiously, one of the two left untied is the explanation of what the House Between Night and Day is. I suspect I know what it was supposed to be, but the text never outright shows us (unless I missed something, a possibility which should be kept open). I have a similar suspicion regarding the other untied end, but if I am right then its opaqueness reaches almost Lynchian levels of inference. Nevertheless, on the very valid question “do we get all the answers in this book?” it isn’t too far fetched to answer “if ninety-nine percent is close enough for affirmation then, yes, it does.”
As pointed out in the review of Speilets bakside (translation: The Mirror’s Back Side), the previous book, the story of the series is continuous and not a beat is skipped between each one. They act more like one novel spanning three volumes than a trilogy of novels. This means that it is impossible to describe any part of The Longest Day’s plot without revealing parts of the plot from the previous books, and so, to prevent such revelations, I will refrain from giving a synopsis in this review.
The previous books have kept a constant high pace without any deceleration of note. One would think that this would change when The Longest Day’s resolutions start appearing, but the adrenaline outright refuses to let go. The threat of death and utter annihilation of mankind is chronic, a pressure so unrelenting one might as well be talking about a gravitational force. Then the epic climax erupts and keeps erupting for a fair while before the reader finally gets to breathe. At that point there is less than ten pages left with which to regain one’s composure. This is first and foremost an action novel despite the sci-fi setting.
Yet, it is also clearly a sci-fi, and more so in The Longest Day than the previous ones. Where the previous ones sacrificed the worldbuilding for the more immediate goings-on – action literature does after all demand that the narration sticks to the fray – this one manages to sneak much more of the world itself into the descriptions of the here and now. A balance has been achieved, bringing together the best of the two styles.
The language seems in general to have advanced between the previous books and this one. This one was published by a bigger press¹ (since the previous one went out of business in-between) and perhaps the heightened quality is a result of the increased amount of and/or different resources this change opened up. There have been other reviewers who found the science-y explanations to be a bit too science-y as opposed to being accessible, but seeing as the science here is only there to give an illusion of reality rather than actually explaining anything, this doesn’t strike me as a problem. In sci-fi there is fictional science and there is a limit to how coherent the fictional theories can become before they become nonsensical or boring.
All in all I think the series ended on a high note, and more than anything else it is because of this last book that I would recommend the series.
1. For some reason the series was renamed as a part of the move, to Markus Eldfell trilogien (translation; The Markus Eldfell Trilogy). I have been unable to discover why, but if I had to guess then I would say it was done because the new name is both shorter and easier to remember. Though in my opinion The House Between Night and Day still sounds a lot more enticing than just naming it after the protagonist.
Den lengste dagen (translation: The Longest Day) did indeed need to be quite long to tie up all of the threads from the previous two books, and also a few new threads which itself added on top. The amount of twists and explanations it has rivals the TV-series Lost, but where Lost had a very poor ratio between which plot points were resolved and which weren’t, the Huset mellom natt og dag (translation: The House Between Night and Day) series only has two threads left untied by the end (as far as I could tell), everything else is dealt with satisfactorily. Curiously, one of the two left untied is the explanation of what the House Between Night and Day is. I suspect I know what it was supposed to be, but the text never outright shows us (unless I missed something, a possibility which should be kept open). I have a similar suspicion regarding the other untied end, but if I am right then its opaqueness reaches almost Lynchian levels of inference. Nevertheless, on the very valid question “do we get all the answers in this book?” it isn’t too far fetched to answer “if ninety-nine percent is close enough for affirmation then, yes, it does.”
As pointed out in the review of Speilets bakside (translation: The Mirror’s Back Side), the previous book, the story of the series is continuous and not a beat is skipped between each one. They act more like one novel spanning three volumes than a trilogy of novels. This means that it is impossible to describe any part of The Longest Day’s plot without revealing parts of the plot from the previous books, and so, to prevent such revelations, I will refrain from giving a synopsis in this review.
The previous books have kept a constant high pace without any deceleration of note. One would think that this would change when The Longest Day’s resolutions start appearing, but the adrenaline outright refuses to let go. The threat of death and utter annihilation of mankind is chronic, a pressure so unrelenting one might as well be talking about a gravitational force. Then the epic climax erupts and keeps erupting for a fair while before the reader finally gets to breathe. At that point there is less than ten pages left with which to regain one’s composure. This is first and foremost an action novel despite the sci-fi setting.
Yet, it is also clearly a sci-fi, and more so in The Longest Day than the previous ones. Where the previous ones sacrificed the worldbuilding for the more immediate goings-on – action literature does after all demand that the narration sticks to the fray – this one manages to sneak much more of the world itself into the descriptions of the here and now. A balance has been achieved, bringing together the best of the two styles.
The language seems in general to have advanced between the previous books and this one. This one was published by a bigger press¹ (since the previous one went out of business in-between) and perhaps the heightened quality is a result of the increased amount of and/or different resources this change opened up. There have been other reviewers who found the science-y explanations to be a bit too science-y as opposed to being accessible, but seeing as the science here is only there to give an illusion of reality rather than actually explaining anything, this doesn’t strike me as a problem. In sci-fi there is fictional science and there is a limit to how coherent the fictional theories can become before they become nonsensical or boring.
All in all I think the series ended on a high note, and more than anything else it is because of this last book that I would recommend the series.
1. For some reason the series was renamed as a part of the move, to Markus Eldfell trilogien (translation; The Markus Eldfell Trilogy). I have been unable to discover why, but if I had to guess then I would say it was done because the new name is both shorter and easier to remember. Though in my opinion The House Between Night and Day still sounds a lot more enticing than just naming it after the protagonist.
July 10, 2023
Må innrømme at jeg ikke hang helt med her, mye teoretisk og teknologisk som skjer. Men veldig spennende!
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