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2 months ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Martin MacInnes |Annie McDermott
Stuck in a reading rut? These simple tips will transform reading into a rewarding resolution – and make 2025 your best year yet Written by Donna Mackay-Smith Publication date and time: Published January 27, 2025Remember the last time you got completely lost in a book? That moment when the world around you fades, and all that matters is what’s waiting on the next page. It’s one of life’s greatest pleasures – yet sometimes, even for seasoned readers, it can feel like an uphill struggle.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Emily Tesh |Martin MacInnes |Martha Wells |Brian K. Vaughan
Let’s start with the winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh. This is a cleverly crafted book, uniting several well-loved sci fi themes: space-station life, alien contact, AI overlords and alternate universes all come into play. But the overall result is fresh. The Chicago Review of Books put it well: “it’s hard to overstate how good this novel is at what it’s doing.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |Lavanya Lakshminarayan |Martin MacInnes |Ray Nayler
recommended by Andrew M. Butler WINNER In Ascension by Martin MacInnes Every year, the judges for the Arthur C. Clarke Award highlight the best of the latest batch of science fiction books.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Martin MacInnes
Recommendations from our site “I think it’s the most Clarkeian book on the shortlist, with adventures deep under the sea and ventures into outer space. It’s also got a bit of a Gravity vibe at times, although one of the judges would like to see Denis Villeneuve adapt it for the big screen after Dune.” Read more...
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May 14, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Vanessa Armstrong |Lavanya Lakshminarayan |Martin MacInnes |Emily Tesh
The shortlist for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award, given to the best science fiction novel first published in the U.K. of the following year, has been announced. The winner will be announced on July 24, 2024 and will receive an engraved bookend and £2,024. The judges come from the award’s supporting organizations—the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation, and the Sci-Fi-London film festival.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Doris Lessing |Margaret Atwood |Martin MacInnes
On Monday, March 11, the International Booker Prize 2024 longlist will be revealed. While you might be wondering which 12 or 13 works of translated fiction will appear on the list, Chair of judges, Eleanor Wachtel, recently alluded to what the panel is looking for while they were reading their way through this year’s submissions.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Édouard Louis |John Lambert |Russell Banks |Martin MacInnes
Among the stellar books featured in today's issue, we look at Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead by Lisa Selin Davis, "a clear-eyed cultural appraisal of 'women's work,' and the high price women pay as working mothers"; as well as Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera, which follows a podcast's murder investigation in a small town "with dark humor, propulsive pacing, and a properly confounding whodunit." Plus, Snowglobe by Soyoung Park, an "austere, thrilling, and...
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Doris Lessing |Martin MacInnes |David Mitchell |Yoko Ogawa
In 1938, a radio adaptation of H.G Wells’ classic novel The War of the Worlds sparked panic, convincing some listeners it was a genuine news broadcast and a real-life alien invasion was underway. Fortunately, this was not the case and while humanity endures, this event marked the onset of what is now known as the Golden Age of Science Fiction, a period which heralded a surge in the genre’s popularity, firmly establishing its place in mainstream culture.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Jane Ciabattari |Martin MacInnes
From an early age Dr. Leigh Hasenboch, the central character in Martin MacInnes’ stunningly immersive Booker-longlisted novel In Ascension, is fascinated by the ocean and by Niewe Maas, the icy river near her hometown of Rotterdam. It’s a place where she can feel at peace after her father’s explosive outbursts. She trains as a marine microbiologist, specializing in archaea, joins a team exploring a newfound trench in the Atlantic, and then is recruited for a NASA project that sends her into space.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Martin MacInnes
What to Read February Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books What to Read February Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books A brooding biologist seeks transcendence in Martin MacInnes's richly atmospheric, patiently unfurling novel "In Ascension." When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
