Described as 'fiendishly clever' by Books+Publishing, The Weaver Fish incorporates mathematics and science into a thrilling plotline.
'The Weaver Fish is not merely ambitious but unclassifiable.' Australian Book Review
A novel about friendship and morality, epigenetics, mathematics, linguistics, aviation, condors, gloomy lift shafts, a tornado-proof Texan hat, and more.
Puzzle or pastiche? A unique, stimulating genre mash-up, The Weaver Fish is a mischievous, intriguing and playful debut novel from an Australian science professor.
Puzzle or pastiche? This mischievous, intriguing and playful debut novel is a genre-defying adventure.
'The Weaver Fish is fiendishly clever. It brings together so many threads its hard to know where to start. From hurricane-proof hats to a mysterious bird of prey that's perhaps not what it seems, to a thriller subplot somehow tied to financing Margaret River wineries and illegal Chinese logging on a remote island, it all links together, somehow. Many of the quirky characters have punny, aptronymic names that serve to amuse and confuse in equal measure, as do numerous suggestions peppered throughout the narrative that some (or all) of what is going on may well be an elaborate academic hoax. Everything in this intellectual puzzle of a book is underpinned by brilliantly realised but, we can only presume, entirely made-up science, linguistics, psychiatry, history and geography, complete with extensive endnotes. Its a novel unlike anything you've read before, but will provide hours of brain-food to those who enjoy being challenged by authors such as Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges, Neal Stephenson or David Mitchell. It would certainly make for a discussion-stimulating bookclub read. 4.5 from 5 stars!' Books + Publishing
'Evocative writing, in which the science is an essential character. The ideas stimulate and mesmerise' ABC Radio's The Science Show
'This could possibly be described as one of the cleverest books ever' Bailieborough Library Reading Group
'Unique ... The Weaver Fish is not merely ambitious but unclassifiable' Australian Book Review
'The Weaver Fish is both thriller and intellectual exercise, cyberpunk and philosophy' A Bookish Type
'The Weaver Fish is seriously good fun, and once you get the joke, tremendously clever' ANZ Lit Lovers
