In Ascension

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024

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LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Mesmerising' Sunday Times
'Magnificent' Guardian
'Monumental' The Telegraph

Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.

Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

'Utterly compelling' The Times, Books of the Year
'Profound and thrilling' New Statesman, Books of the Year
'A far-reaching epic' Financial Times, Books of the Year

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    In Ascension

    Posted by Chris Robinson on 23rd Aug 2024

    Almost brilliant, but how could such a schoolboy error - the near-lightspeed effect noted by Einstein and crucial to the Planet of the Apes franchise -have escaped the planning team, let alone the editor of this book?

Authors:
MacInnes, Martin
Year Published:
2024
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781838956271
Number of Pages:
512
Publication Date:
01/02/2024
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Place of Publication:
London
Language:
English
SKU:
9781838956271

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