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Ascension
By (Author) Nicholas Binge
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperVoyager
1st September 2024
28th March 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Technothriller
Contemporary horror and ghost stories
Speculative fiction
823.92
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
200g
Old-school creepy. . . a five-star horror novel. STEPHEN KING
A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human.
IF YOU EVER READ THIS,
TELL OTHERS.
DONT COME HERE.
When a mountain mysteriously appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a group of scientists are sent to investigate.
Explorer Harry Tunmore agrees to join the secret mission and he has his own reasons beyond scientific curiosity . . .
But the higher the team ascend, the stranger things become. Time moves differently. Memories of their lives before the mountain begin to fade.
What, or who, will they discover at the top
Gripping and intriguing Daily Mail
Jaw-dropping Cosmopolitan
An accomplished and clever speculative thriller that explores the limits of human knowledge
THE TIMES
Gripping and intriguing.
DAILY MAIL
Jaw-dropping
COSMOPOLITAN
Binges eerie speculative thriller looks both outward at the edges of scientific understanding, and inward at the meaning of responsibility, remorse and the human capacity for salvaging mercy from tragedy.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Myth, physics, religion and human natureits all there in this brilliant, brain-twisting, high-concept tour-de-force that keeps you reading just as the scientists in the story are compelled to keep climbing.
DAILY MAIL
Youve gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepya five-star horror novel.
Stephen King
Binge is an author to watch and if his subsequent novels are anything close to ASCENSION, I'll be reading every single one. A fantastic achievement that'll make me look at my beloved mountains twice.
TJ Klune, New York Times bestselling author
Binge has written a profound and elegiac story that examines science, faith and the concept of humanity itself I will be thinking about this one for a long time!
Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS
A rollicking good read. Playful, inventive and vivid, with addictive narrative drive. Astonishingly accomplished.
Lionel Shriver, bestselling author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Both the science and the suspense are perfection, all held together by a robust emotional core. I enjoyed it immensely
Tade Thompson, award-winning author of ROSEWATER and FAR FROM THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN
A real page turner; Binge is an author to watch.
Richard Swan, author of THE JUSTICE OF KINGS
Ascension is a thrill ride of a novel that kept me reading well past my bedtime
Michael Mammay, author of the PLANETSIDE SERIES
Nicholas Binge was born in Singapore and has since lived in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the UK. He is an author of speculative fiction and his recent novel Professor Everywhere was shortlisted for the Proverse Prize for Literature in Hong Kong. He has a deep love for anything weird, anything that pushes boundaries, and anything that makes him cry. He lives and works in Edinburgh with his family, where he also teaches literature. www.nicholasbinge.com