num_pages: 55
description: "The Eisenberg Constant" (first published in 2001 as part of a prose collection of the same name) tells the story of Henry Selinger who leads an easy life inside the eponymous time loop. The simulated reality resets on a weekly basis, thus enabling the protagonist to start afresh every Monday morning.One day, various "bugs" start to occur in the system: Strange voices can be heard from the bathroom, and the radio program grows increasingly bizarre. Furthermore, Selinger is having these disturbing nightmares about a monstrous cadaver, which later turns out to be the ape god Shaprak: His space ship has crashed on a field nearby and is apparently affecting not only Selinger's mental state, but also the whole community …Egner's style in this piece of speculative fiction is full of the grotesque and the nonsensical, the language is quirky, inventive and, as always, completely sui generis. The result is menacing, zany silliness, culminating in a decidedly absurd finale.
language: English
title: The Eisenberg Constant
publisher: Cheeky Frawg