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. The story opens after Harold splits with his wife, Naoko due to his mistake that cost the life of their adopted son, Santi. When everything happened with Santi, and the hospital, I had to step away, wean myself off it, rehabilitate.

Con este punto solo pretendo reivindicar el muy manido principio de "muestra no cuentes": no me digas que tu personaje es muy inteligente, muéstrame esa inteligencia con sus acciones. Además la ambientación en un lugar remoto y hostil, en este caso una montaña helada, para mí fue muy efectivo y os juro que lo pasé mal! Framed by the discovery of Harry Tunmore’s unsent letters to his family and the chilling and provocative story they tell, Ascension considers the limitations of science and faith and examines both the beautiful and the unsettling sides of human nature. The records of the expedition are in the form of letters, a device which didn't add to the story in any meaningful way.

Solo diré que hay más horror cósmico en ciertos pasajes de El origen de las especies y en las ecuaciones de Heissenberg que en cualquier párrafo de esta novela.

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 philosophising that is scattered through the text is trite and uninteresting, and becomes very tedious as the book progresses. If you want a laugh, you can check out my status-updates on reading this book and see the exact moment I pick up on the twist, disregard it because it’s too stupid to actually be true, and then go through several stages of grief when I realize that, yes, the author is actually doing this shit. It's so well-paced and beautifully written that it didn't relinquish its grip on me until the very last word.