Alguna vez has pensado en leer a Lovecraft pero te da bastante miedo o te intimida y no te animas? Pues esta es tu novela 😁 Smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategically to keep the reader moving. . . The ideas are big and the journey is a whole lot of fun.” — The New York Times A vertiginous tale of discovery, horror and weird, time-bending phenomena… [ASCENSION] provides well-sustained tension and some excitingly wrought scenes of violence.” — The Financial Times

Lo primero que quiero decir es que si queréis leer la novela, leed primero el relato de Lovecraft, creo que se disfruta más de esa forma y se captan todas las referencias. Atrapante e intrigante. Una vez lo empecé tuve que seguir. Va directamente al grano, no pierde el tiempo ni es muy largo. I can’t believe I’ve had to read not one but two dumb sci-fi novels titled (In) Ascension this year. I mean, what are the odds?! Not only is the title the same but the plot AND the main character are basically the same! Yikes. The main difference is that In Ascension has better writing (but believe me, the bar is low). Why I should’ve abandoned ship by the second chapter: I know some people explicitly like it, but in my opinion the epistolary format simply does not work in 90% of cases. Here in this case the choice to go for a second person/ letter perspective is downright egregious.

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Una historia en la que utiliza las maravillas por descubrir de la Tierra tan o más apasionantes que las las del espacio. Cuanto más asciende el equipo de Harold, menos sentido tienen las cosas. El tiempo se mueve de manera diferente, convirtiendo los minutos en horas y las horas en días. En medio del frío azotador de las elevaciones más altas, las extremidades de los escaladores se entumecen y los recuerdos de sus vidas antes de la montaña comienzan a desvanecerse. La paranoia rápidamente se convierte en violencia entre la tripulación, y criaturas antiguas y deslizantes los persiguen en la nieve. Binge has written a profound and elegiac story that examines science, faith and the concept of humanity itself —what it means to live and die, to yearn and strive, and all the spaces in between. I will be thinking about this one for a long time!” —Sunyi Dean, bestselling author of The Book Eaters Exerts an irresistible pull, setting not only a scientific search in motion but also a transcendent quest to unravel mysteries of existence and human meaning. Suspenseful yet also deeply contemplative in turns, this is a novel that spins the mind and asks us to step with it into the unworldly.” —Pitchaya Sudbanthad, author of Bangkok Wakes to Rain I was very excited to get my hands on this ARC because Nicholas Binge’s debut, Professor Everywhere, is one of my favorite books. While Ascension is not a favorite, I did enjoy it quite a bit. It gave me strong Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation vibes and that book is also one of my favorites. 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. Along the way they experience some strange anomalies that are both alarming and exciting. It’s truly mind-bending and several unexpected things happen. It definitely took a direction I was not expecting. My only gripe is that it felt like there were too many ideas and things happening. While it all comes together at the end, it still felt a bit too much.

Una misteriosa montaña, mucho más alta que el Everest, aparece de pronto en mitad del océano y un grupo de militares y científicos van a realizar un ascenso para estudiarla tras el fracaso de la primera expedición. Pero no están preparados para lo que les aguarda en la montaña y tendrán que luchar para regresar con vida. Otro consejo es que leáis con atención y que no tengáis reparos en releer párrafos, ya que hay conceptos algo complicados de entender.

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A cross between Journey to the Center of the Earth and Heart of Darkness. . . An entertaining SF thriller." —Kirkus

The book begins with a foreword from Ben Tunmore whose brother, Harold, a scientist of strange phenomena has been missing for 30yrs.

Ascension is a pastiche of august influences. The epistolary structure is borrowed from Dracula. The doomed expedition that drives Harold mad is akin to H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. . . .Binge earns his place among these literary lights with an expert story of creeping dread and cosmological horror." — Booklist Aunque no os guste Lovecraft que no os eche para atrás mi halago. Es por cierta similitud que este autor ha hecho en su honor. Ascension] is smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategically to keep the reader moving. . .Binge’s crisp prose moves well between science fiction concepts, Gothic terror and fast-paced action sequences. . .For fans of well-wrought science fiction and cosmic horror scares, Ascension is worth the climb.” — The New York Times Book Review Ascension is a beautifully written piece of weird fiction with literary pretensions (well deserved), some sci-fi elements and some horror that is told from the perspective of Harold Turnmore as a series of post hoc letters to his niece after the fact of events several decades later. The book is absolutely brilliant! Mr. 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. A gigantic mountain has just appeared out of thin air and the first team to traverse it has failed to return...

The obsession of the expeditions to Antarctica, or other rugged regions where people die trying to achieve a far flung goal, is very successfully conjured. Un misterio de CF que usa un concepto clásico. Un misterio arriesgado y brillante, una muy angustiosa aventura por la supervivencia. But the mountain seems to have a mind of its own. Strange things start to happen. Time moves differently. People’s personalities change. Why is this? 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 humanDeja vu’s are seemingly coming to life, there are anomalies, contemplations on religion and a a mysterious ex wife Naoko Tanaka. I think people will love this book for different reasons. Some will be drawn to the science, some to the action, some to the internal thoughts of Harold. In that sense, it is a book that will fuel many a conversation – and I expect to see that discussion unfolding when the book is released. Some may find elements controversial, others may find parts pushing boundaries. The vibe of predestination versus free will is strong, with one of the character poignantly arguing the seeing into his future gave him more choice about Achilles. Ascension is a thrill ride of a novel that kept me reading well past my bedtime.”— Michael Mammay, author of the Planetside series Literary nightmare fodder like Scott Smith's The Ruins and Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation” — Entertainment Weekly, ‘Spring 2023 Book Preview: 15 titles to shake off the winter blues’