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Dissolution
By (Author) Nicholas Binge
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperVoyager
16th April 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Technothriller
Contemporary horror and ghost stories
Metaphysical / philosophical fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Science fiction: near future
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Narrative theme: Interior life
Narrative theme: Health and illness
Paperback
384
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 24mm
270g
'Old-school creepy a five-star horror novel' STEPHEN KING on Ascension
A staggeringly mindbending speculative thriller about a woman who dives into her husbands memories to uncover a decades-old threat to reality itself
Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. Its the loneliest shes ever felt in her life.
When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isnt losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light. If Maggie does what shes told, she can reverse it. She can get her husband back.
Led by Hassan and his technological marvels, Maggie breaks into her husbands mind, probing the depths of his memories in an effort to save him. The deeper she dives, the more she unravels a mystery spanning continents and centuries, each layer more complex than the last.
But Hassan cannot be trusted. Not just memories are disappearing, but pieces of reality itself. If Maggie cannot find out what Stanley did all those years ago, and what Hassan is after, she risks far more than her husbands life. The very course of human history hangs in the balance ago, and what Hassan is after, she risks far more than her husbands life. The very course of human history hangs in the balance.
PRAISE FOR NICHOLAS BINGE:
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
'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