In Ascension: Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023
海洋生物学者リーが、深海の異常と宇宙開発の謎をつなぐ研究に巻き込まれ、生命の起源と人間の居場所を問い直していく。家族の問題と宇宙規模の探求が重なり合う、思索的で壮大なSF長編。
作品情報
海の底から宇宙の彼方へ、ひとりの探究が広がっていく。
リーはロッテルダムで育ち、海への憧れから微生物学の道へ進む。深海の異常と宇宙開発の謎がつながっていくなかで、彼女は生命の起源と、家族と地球への帰る場所を問い続ける。
レビュー要約
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深海から宇宙へ広がるスケール感と、緻密で思索的な構成が高く評価されている。いっぽうで、ゆるやかな進行や情報量の多さが読み手を選ぶという声もある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Atlantic Books
- 発売日
- 2023-02-02
- ページ数
- 512ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.8 x 3.6 x 21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781838956240
- ISBN-10
- 1838956247
- 価格
- 1147 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction
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
Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He is the author of Infinite Ground and Gathering Evidence , and he is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and a Manchester Fiction Prize. In 2020 he was selected by the Guardian /British Council as One of Ten Writers Shaping the UK's Future. He lives in Edinburgh.
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Good story line, interesting science however the background stories of the characters though insightful is overplayed and becomes tedious.
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The author seems to have written two novels, one about a dysfunctional family, and one a fairly conventional space opera, and then cobbled them together. The basic plot is not very original - unseen aliens summon us to a distant rendezvous, we go there but find ... what? (see Contact, 2001). This rather thin plot is fleshed out with long sections about the astronaut's childhood and parents, which are well-written but become tedious.
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Real characters and situations with strange events. Set in a near future, you get to feel you know the people at the end. Less technical details but it doesn't matter.
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really nice, fast paced, unusal in agood way, loved every minute of it!
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Wonderful book, a top three of 2023-4 for me. It's a hopeful tale. Special. There is so much beauty in it, I was angry when it ended, as I just wanted more and more of its brilliance.Having strong, beautiful Characters that you invest in, a lot. From the intimacy of hurtling through Space, all the practices in a huge Pool to the actual depths of the Pacific. The Ocean sub-plot will pay off in a big way upon completion of this wonderful Space Drama. It actually left me stunned as I whispered the last word on the last page then into a "BRAVO!"; for how MacInnes pulled this off. Urgently recommended. - Benway
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