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Ship of theseus novel5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() involves more than just admiring the design work that went into it. Abrams and written by Doug Dorst, an author who also has the fact that he’s a three-time Jeopardy! champ on his C.V.īut unpacking S. There’s no denying it’s a striking production, and it comes with interesting credits: “conceived by” the popcorn-film producer J. Break the seal on the shrink-wrapped slipcase and you find that the volume inside - which is designed to look like an old library book, complete with due date stamps and age-stained pages - is packed with colourful bonus features including postcards, pages of handwritten notes, photocopies of important documents, maps drawn on restaurant napkins, and even a kind of spinning de-coder ring called an Eotvos Wheel. This is a generous book, whose contents literally spill out from between its pages as though falling from an upended Christmas stocking. Entering the world of a novel can be an experience like opening a gift, and that’s a conceit that works especially well with S. ![]()
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