In Ascension

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Martin MacInnes: In Ascension (2024, Atlantic Books, Limited)

English language

Published 2024 by Atlantic Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-83895-627-1
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5 stars (1 review)

4 editions

Simultaneously grand and intimate

5 stars

The best way I can summarise its themes is that it's a story about the Earth. Our connection to it; its history; the things we understand and the things we don't; the things we lose when we move beyond it. All of these things filtered through the perspective of Leigh, a detached yet ambitious scientist.

The supporting characters don't get a lot of development. It's not that type of book. It's slow, it's often meandering. It takes its time. The focus is very much on, as I said, the world: its beauty and its horror

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