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In Ascension
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This is a nicely written piece of literary science fiction. Not many sci-fi novels are nominated for a Booker Prize. I’d put the writing on par with Ian McEwan.
The story begins with a young woman in Rotterdam who has a difficult home life – a violent father, a distant mother and sister – and who loves the sea and eventually becomes a marine biologist. She takes part in a scientific voyage to a deep-sea trench, hoping to study archaea, the earth’s earliest life-forms, and discovers something unexpected. This eventually leads her to a commercial space agency, where she is torn between spending time with her declining mother and the sister who cares for her, and work that could ultimately take her to interstellar space.
The book contains interesting intellectual and philosophical speculations on the nature of life. The ending is... interesting. In general, the plot is high in ambiguity.
The story begins with a young woman in Rotterdam who has a difficult home life – a violent father, a distant mother and sister – and who loves the sea and eventually becomes a marine biologist. She takes part in a scientific voyage to a deep-sea trench, hoping to study archaea, the earth’s earliest life-forms, and discovers something unexpected. This eventually leads her to a commercial space agency, where she is torn between spending time with her declining mother and the sister who cares for her, and work that could ultimately take her to interstellar space.
The book contains interesting intellectual and philosophical speculations on the nature of life. The ending is... interesting. In general, the plot is high in ambiguity.
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