The Fifth Dimension, by Martin Vopenka
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A contemporary classic from the Czech Republic. To support his family, a man submits himself to a solo science experiment in the High Andes. A cosmic adventure story of big ideas and murder. ‘I loved it: simple as that. I started reading thinking I'd start with a few chapters and pace it over a week or two, but I found I couldn't stop. A potent and haunting novel of black holes, solitude and the sublime, it is never less than immensely readable and absorbing.’ – Adam Roberts, winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.Your business is dead. It seems like a deal – leave your family behind in Prague for a year, isolate yourself in a research station in the Andes, and come home with a fortune. With a treatise on black holes for company, Jakob settles in at altitude. The air is thin. Strangers pass by on dangerous pilgrimage while his young wife and kids take life in his mind. In mountain starkness, the big questions take shape – like what happens to love inside a black hole?
The Fifth Dimension, by Martin Vopenka - Amazon Sales Rank: #1479868 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-09
- Released on: 2015-10-09
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 5 quantum llamas - this is a compelling and mind-bending read. By KathLDK Literogo Translated from the Czech by Hana Sklekova, The Fifth Dimension is a mind-bending exploration of physics, spirituality, humanity, sexuality and the effect of isolation and separation on one’s psyche. It’s not a light read at all, but it is compelling.In the wake of the collapse of his business as a result of the economic recession, in the post-Communist Czech Republic, Jakub agrees to spend a year entirely alone at a remote location, for $200 000. The company claims it is part of an experiment. However, the aims of the experiment cannot be made clear to Jakub without jeopardizing its results. He may not contact anyone, and he is required to take biometric measurements every three days.The setting of the novel is otherworldly and magnificent in its vastness: Jakub inhabits a clinical, soulless bunker in the high Andes, between Chile and Argentina. His only companions are the herds of wild llamas that graze on the plateau below, at first. Then his solitude is disrupted by the violent invasion of other people; first violence out of necessity and mercy, then violence derived from love and sexuality, and finally violence that arises from a place of pure evil.As Jakub sees his pristine puna tainted by the evil that comes from others, he retreats into his mind. In order to keep his mind healthy and active, he has brought with him a book about black holes. He studies the book intently and relates what he has learned to the reader. At times these passages were very complex, and I struggled to follow them. However, sometimes the physics was described in a seductively poetic way. One might compare it to Alice in Quantumland, as quantum physics is explained through parables rather than formulae. As Jakub studies the physics of time, space and relativity, he circles ever closer to a startling discovery of what he believes to be the fifth dimension.The use of the fifth dimension to give voice to what is happening back home to his wife and children, the threats to his marriage, and the violence that he encounters in the Andes, is an interesting narrative technique, as I could never be sure if what Jakub was describing was a daydream, nightmare, vision or a true reflection of something about which he could not possibly have knowledge unless his theory of the fifth dimension was true. He is an unreliable narrator, on the one hand, while on the other hand his theory cannot be otherwise proven but through his experiences.The Fifth Dimension is less a novel than a parable used to explain a philosophical and physical concept. However, despite the dense and confusing technical parts, the looming menace of the violence in all its forms lends the narrative a current of suspense that propels the reader forward to its dramatic conclusion. It is the sort of book that should be studied by philosophy students and quantum physicists. It also explores the origins of the universe, and creates a compelling argument for a certain kind of God. A book that can challenge so many ideas of how our universe really looks, what forces act upon it, and how morality can affect the physical world, is by nature disturbing to the reader. I found it a deeply unsettling, but thought-provoking read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Superb novel – deep, intelligent, and complex. By Jiri Soukup Being a writer myself, I am quite picky in what I read, but I could not put this book aside until I reached the end.Jakub’s blooming business venture suddenly fails, and in order to support his wife and two small children he agrees to join an experiment with a secret American company, probably CIA. If he stays for a year under controlled conditions and in a complete isolation from his family and the entire world, he will be awarded huge sum of money. He is allowed to take with him only one book, and he chooses a textbook on black holes.A helicopter takes him to a small, modern-equipped bunker high up in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. In short chapters, the story alternates between his life in this hostile yet beautiful environment and his fantasies about what is happening with his family in Prague. The reader gradually gets a feeling that these thoughts are not just fantasies but that – due to the high altitude, his isolation and lack of sex – Jakub is actually able to see what his family is doing. When reading his book, he gets an idea that we may be living in a five-dimensional world consisting of space-time-spirit, where spirit would be something common to all living creatures, and he thinks that his psychic ability could be explained by this spirit dimension. However, evil invades his life from several directions, and if I tell you more I would spoil your reading.The description of the mountains, the terrain, the weather patterns and the high-altitude effects on human body is amazing. The author must have explored the area on his own. I read the English translation by M. Sklenkova which is as superb as the novel itself. In my opinion, Vopenka does not follow the tradition of the Czech writers such as Kundera or Hrabal known to Western readers today. I see him more as a disciple of the indisputably greatest Czech writer Karel Capek. In a subtle way, ‘Fifth Dimension’ relates to Capek’s ‘Krakatit’ or to his “Absolute at Large’. However, ‘Fifth Dimension’ also resembles Dostoyevskij – in how it probes deep into Jakubs feelings and how it follows the disasters caused by a few seemingly unimportant decisions.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Mind numbingly boring. By Crazie Betty There were so many things in this book that should've made it be right up my alley. Instead I feel disappointed and like I wasted my time reading it. Still have no idea what the point of the story of was. This book was classified as science fiction but I would have to disagree with that genre tag. This was fantasy, magical realism, philosophy, or just plain contemporary, but not sci-fi (I do realize it's not classified as sci-fi on Amazon but it was on other sites I was looking through). I'm going to do my best to give a decent review but I'm still upset by how much I didn't enjoy this so I'm hoping my review doesn't come off too jumbled or ranty.Jakub has volunteered for a secret science project in which he will be all alone in an unknown place for a year's amount of time, while his wife and two young children stay behind. But with $200,000 as the payout for completing the experiment, it doesn't seem like too much of sacrifice for the family.I honestly couldn't even remotely get into this story until about 38%, once Jakub is completely on his own and things start happening. I'm not using the word "things" to be secretive or anything, I'm using as in finally something, ANYTHING, happened besides the MC thinking about sex and preparing for his trip. Jakub was allowed to bring one book with him to his solitude and so he chooses a tomb of physics as he used to be a physicist until he decided to open his own business. I actually really enjoyed the sections that delved really deep into the physics aspect and the discussion of black holes. That was basically the entire highlight of the book for me. I didn't find it emotionally engaging, and the mystery/murder was just a blip on the radar as far as I'm concerned. It didn't really do anything for the story at all, in my opinion.Here are my basic reactions to the story overall:* The whole point of Jakub going on this experiment is that he has been out of physics too long, therefore doesn't feel like he can do that job again, and that his business went down the hole. He can't find it in himself to work a "normal" job or to be his own boss again, so this seems like the best option so that he doesn't have to work at all for 10 years. I really really hate this entire character view as it shows Jakub to be an immature irresponsible parent and husband, IMO. Whah Whah Whah, I don't want to work for myself or have to get a job so I'm just going to leave my family for a year because I'm selfish and only care about money.* The ending just made me feel like I didn't know what was real or wasn't real for the entire duration for the read, which just left me feeling like I wasted my time and that there truly was no point to reading the book. Again, this is not sci-fi, it's magical realism. The fact that it's marketed as sci-fi leaves you to believe that for all intents and purposes, there should be actual explanations for things that are happening, not just philosophical mumbo jumbo (I don't have anything against philosophy or theology, except when it's marketed as something it's not).* The Fifth Dimension- I'm pretty sure a lot of my complaints above were done to try and push across this idea of the fifth dimension but it just didn't translate to me at all. There's a lot of talk about it but after all of the MC's experiences, there's really nothing to show how the fifth dimension actually affected anything. It just seemed like a lot of talk to fill the pages.I don't believe that my complaints above had anything to do with this being a translated work as it wasn't the translations that left me feeling upset. It was the story itself and how it was misrepresented as being a genre is obviously wasn't. Just because you talk about black holes and time/space in your book does not automatically make it sci-fi.This book totaled in at just under 300 pages but I truly felt, by the time I was done with it, that I had read a 700 page purpley prose of a monster.I received a copy of this book free from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
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