2024/116: In Ascension — Martin MacInnes

2024/116: In Ascension — Martin MacInnes

‘I mean I want to explore this strangeness as rigorously as I can, and to see myself in it too.’ [loc. 676]

In Ascension won the Arthur C Clarke Award this year, and deservedly so. There are echoes of Rendezvous with Rama, and protagonist Leigh quotes Clarke's maxim that 'Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear indistinguishable from magic'. But Leigh is a (possibly neurodivergent) woman, and her experiences are much stranger than anything I recall from Golden Age SF.

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