Professor Everywhere

Proverse Prize for Literature 2020 - Prize-Winner

Chloe Chan is just about to give up on finding any real scholars at University when she starts to hear the rumours about Professor Roland Crannus. Spoken about in the whispers of conspiracy, the enigmatic Professor is idolised by students as the pinnacle of modern intellectualism – more myth than man.

Desperate to know more, Chloe follows the Professor into an academic labyrinth of clandestine mysteries and untold possibilities. But as her obsession with the Professor grows, she finds that someone, or something, is hunting them both. Plunged into an otherworldly chess game of linguistics, anthropology and quantum theory, Chloe is forced to question everything that she once thought true.

Perfect for fans of Ted Chiang, Susanna Clarke and Sylvain Neuvel, Professor Everywhere is a sci-fi mystery that explores the liminal spaces between language and memory, and the dangers of making heroes out of people who are only human.

Praise for Professor Everywhere

“The plot is air-tight and exceptionally well-paced, with events unfolding inevitability toward the Pimlico incident. Dialogue: slick. Chloe’s interactions with Crannus showcase Binge’s strong character-building, masterfully pushing the reader toward admiring Crannus while also keeping him just alien enough that we are not so swept us as Chloe is.”

— The Independent Book Review (full review here)

“A cocktail of fantasy, philosophy and ingenious plotting. Binge’s smooth-running prose, which combines humour, architecture and scholarly references to Martin Heidegger, makes the unbelievable feel just believable enough.”

— The South China Morning Post

“The wealth of ideas in this novel makes it an ideal read for fans of science-fiction – all the more so because it maintains a furious pace throughout, and mixes in some superb action sequences…. Above all, however, it is a joy to read – a novel that is truly novel, truly mind-bending, and which, much like the professor of its title, opens doors to other worlds.”

— Neon Books (full review here)

“Clever, well-written… Binge successfully manages to defy traditional genre boundaries by shifting a number of gears as the narrative progresses, from what starts as a campus satire, moves into what appears to be a psychological thriller, and then becomes a much darker story, and like Professor Crannus, more mysterious.”

— David Stephens, author of Purely Academic

  • Publisher: Proverse Hong Kong
    Release Date: April 21, 2020
    ISBN: 978-9888491858
    Pages: 279