Ascension: The gripping new speculative time travel thriller of 2023

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For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. But the situation this protagonist finds himself in is so absurd, even the most literal minded person would react to that. The story opens after Harold splits with his wife, Naoko due to his mistake that cost the life of their adopted son, Santi. In Ascension, we have a group of soldiers and experts-a biologist, physicist, chemist, geologist, and anthropologist-exploring this mountain that literally popped out of thin air. Both Santi and Naoko have lived in my mind since finishing the book – and it is the relationship between Harold, Naoko and Santi that reveals the biggest questions of them all.

He is an author of speculative fiction and his recent novel Professor Everywhere was shortlisted for the Proverse Prize for Literature in Hong Kong. Harold Turnmore is our resident genius and he's recruited by some shadowy government type military figures for a curious expedition to investigate an anomaly out in the middle of the Pacific. Ascension is] full of frenetic action and packed with twists and turns, gun fights and villains, but it’s also a sustained reflection on the limits of being human. Una videorreseña realizada por una famosa booktuber que no mencionare, pero cuyo criterio respeto enormemente, añade como subtitulo a su video un suculento "Lovecraft estaría orgulloso". Por ejemplo, el origen de la montaña se despacha como si tal cosa en un momento del libro, o la vida basada en el ARN -que aunque aquí digan que los ARN virus no son seres vivos lo son, teóricamente- que funciona brevemente como misterio accesorio a la ya misteriosa naturaleza de la montaña pero que apenas se desarrolla ni explica.Ascension definitely works better as a horror-- monstrous creatures in the night, minds being taken over by mystical forces, religious themes, campy twists --but I came in expecting something akin to Sylvain Neuvel's Sleeping Giants so I was disappointed. Se han topado con el mayor descubrimiento científico conocido por el hombre o con las semillas de su propia desaparición? My own work—not a commission but rather a personal investigation, spurred on by bizarre and contradictory reports of bird migrations coming out of the region. Otro consejo es que leáis con atención y que no tengáis reparos en releer párrafos, ya que hay conceptos algo complicados de entender. Una montaña, más alta que cualquiera en la faz de la tierra, aparece de la nada en medio del océano.

El horror cósmico son los padres: toda la historia se nos cuenta a modo de manuscrito encontrado: el hermano del narrador, tras décadas sin tener noticias de él, descubre que éste no solo no estaba muerto sino que llevaba años recluido en un asilo psiquiátrico después de una perdida de cordura masiva. I had no words to break the holy silence of that little room, until Father Michaels—did you ever meet him, with the red hair?

Years later, his brother finds a collection of journals and unsent letters he composed, chronicling the events on the mountain as they unfolded. And it bothered me that he was addressing his young niece in them-- would he really include all the "fucks" and references to making love to his wife? La trama sigue la línea de En las montañas de la locura hasta más o menos la mitad de la novela, cuando se desvía del clásico de Lovecraft para contar su propia historia. I can’t believe I’ve had to read not one but two dumb sci-fi novels titled (In) Ascension this year. Paranoia quickly turns to violence among the crew, and slithering, ancient creatures pursue them in the snow.

Pero esto es otro nivel de desvergüenza, una obra de marketing tan minuciosamente diseñada que casi hace pensar que Nicholas Binge no es un autor sensu stricto, sino una IA a la que la editorial ha cogido cariño: el libro, nada más ser publicado, se traduce inmediatamente a todos los idiomas posibles, y estoy seguro de que alguna productora ya se habrá hecho con los derechos para llevarla al cine o, peor aún, a serie.An interesting blend of sci-fi, speculative fiction, and horror, this is a novel that makes for several existential conversations upon finishing.