The Book of Being

The Book of Being is a novel by Ian Watson published in 1985.

Plot summary

The Book of Being is a novel in which Yaleen dies horribly, goes insane, and then completely rewrites reality.

Reception

reviewed The Book of Being for White Dwarf #68, and stated that "The marathon effort of trilogy-writing is showing: for ages Watson's intellectual gearshift stays in neutral, but crashes into overdrive for the forty pages of Part Three. Strangely paced stuff from one of the few SF authors with a truly strange mind."

Reviews

Review by K. V. Bailey in Vector 126
Review by Chris Morgan in Fantasy Review, July 1985
Review by Don D'Ammassa in Science Fiction Chronicle, #89 February 1987