Ascension: The gripping new speculative time travel thriller of 2023

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Binge’s 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.

Also side note, as an anthropology major I was happy to see an anthropologist character but why does media always gotta make the anthropologist creepy lol. 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? De más esta decir que el componente lovecraftiano esta enteramente limitado a los acontecimientos en la montaña, pero no quiero dar muchos detalles al respecto ya que les arruinaría el libro.I don't know if that was the author's intent but the MC is very, very autistic as written, and as described. A team of selected scientists and other learned folks have been assembled to scale this seemingly unscalable obstacle. Naoko, médico, expareja del narrador y única superviviente de la anterior expedición, que actúa como cicerone enloquecido durante la subida y anima al protagonista a exorcizar esa gran transgresión que cometió en su pasado; Thomas, el geólogo (o químico, se me ha olvidado) que cree en Dios, porque la fe también es muy importante en esta novela (igualito que en Lovecraft, muy conocido por su religiosidad); y el Guardian, el organizador de la expedición, un tío tan intenso y ridículo que se pone alias como si fuera el protagonista de un fanfic escrito por un chaval de 14 años.

I was surprised by how different this is from the author’s debut, the excellent Professor Everywhere; it’s significantly more high-octane and much more ambitious in scope, with forays into horror territory that lean towards the bloody. When a mountain mysteriously appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a group of scientists are sent to investigate – and discover what is at the summit. When Ben is alerted to Harold’s presence in a psychiatric hospital, he finds his brother alive yet seemingly driven mad by his experiences.The story opens after Harold splits with his wife, Naoko due to his mistake that cost the life of their adopted son, Santi. It's as delightful to say there's not much to compare to this read - unique in our business is rare, but it's also challenging as I want you to immediately grasp the full grandeur and urgency in this narrative. There are elements of science-fiction, horror, techno-thriller, and weird fiction, just to name the most prominent ones that come to mind. 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.

The book begins with a foreword from Ben Tunmore whose brother, Harold, a scientist of strange phenomena has been missing for 30yrs. The home of gods and demons, they are simultaneously sacred and — as any viewer of alpine climbing documentaries can attest — hostile. Yet another debut novel whose author shows promise by engaging the reader with one of the most unique, mystifying and unusual plots in publishing. Deja vu’s are seemingly coming to life, there are anomalies, contemplations on religion and a a mysterious ex wife Naoko Tanaka.I couldn't tell what kind of book it was trying to be, the story felt really long and drawn out and the writing felt like it was still at a draft stage. The mountain also unexpectedly reunites Harold with former wife Dr Naoka Tanaka stirring vivid memories of the traumatic event that led to their parting years before. You've come here every week since you were a boy and I don't think I've ever heard you say a single thing that's true.