A review by shelves
Edge by Kōji Suzuki

3.0

(2.9): when a fiction book ends on 4 pages of bibliography, you can surmise that it's tonally going to read like a literature review. nonetheless, i've stopped trying to read koji suzuki's book for a full immersion in fictional worlds (oftentimes, his characters are repetitive, more archetype than person) but in his drawing together of fascinating historical and scientific concepts. in many ways, his book then reads more like horror for your rational scientist than anything else—when pi starts to yield a variant set of numbers, a pattern even, what happens to all the mathematical formulae contingent on its irrationality? if the world as we know it can be described in numbers, what happens when the numbers start telling a different story?