Dissolution
Published on 27. March 2025
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-00-866882-2 (ISBN)
Description
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE
'This twisty, absorbing thriller is both a moving love story and fascinating speculative fiction exploring memory, time and reality' GUARDIAN
'An expertly crafted puzzle of a story' NEW SCIENTIST
'Old-school creepy... a five-star horror novel' STEPHEN KING on Ascension
'A vivid, unputdownable story, about love and loss and all it means to be human' SUNYI DEAN, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters
'An outstanding puzzle box of a novel ... thrilling, intelligent sci-fi with a touch of horror' GARETH BROWN, internationally bestselling author of The Book of Doors
'A nimbly constructed story that starkly explores the dangers of neuroscience run amok' KIRKUS
In this staggeringly mind-bending speculative thriller for fans of Blake Crouch and Ted Chiang, a woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old threat to reality itself...
Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for her elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life.
When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn't losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light. If Maggie does what she's told, she can reverse it. She can get her husband back.
Led by Hassan and his technological marvels, Maggie breaks into her husband's mind, probing the depths of his memories in an effort to save him. The deeper she dives, the more she unravels a mystery spanning continents and centuries, each layer more complex than the last.
But Hassan cannot be trusted. Not just memories are disappearing, but pieces of reality itself. If Maggie cannot find out what Stanley did all those years ago, and what Hassan is after, she risks far more than her husband's life. The very course of human history hangs in the balance.
'A compelling narrative that takes the reader on a page-turning journey through both time and memory' T.R. Napper, award-winning author of 36 Streets
'A tender and compelling tale of love and memory across time and history. Thrilling, thought-provoking and melancholy. Superb' David Wragg, author of The Black Hawks
'This twisty, absorbing thriller is both a moving love story and fascinating speculative fiction exploring memory, time and reality' GUARDIAN
'An expertly crafted puzzle of a story' NEW SCIENTIST
'Old-school creepy... a five-star horror novel' STEPHEN KING on Ascension
'A vivid, unputdownable story, about love and loss and all it means to be human' SUNYI DEAN, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters
'An outstanding puzzle box of a novel ... thrilling, intelligent sci-fi with a touch of horror' GARETH BROWN, internationally bestselling author of The Book of Doors
'A nimbly constructed story that starkly explores the dangers of neuroscience run amok' KIRKUS
In this staggeringly mind-bending speculative thriller for fans of Blake Crouch and Ted Chiang, a woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old threat to reality itself...
Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for her elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life.
When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn't losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light. If Maggie does what she's told, she can reverse it. She can get her husband back.
Led by Hassan and his technological marvels, Maggie breaks into her husband's mind, probing the depths of his memories in an effort to save him. The deeper she dives, the more she unravels a mystery spanning continents and centuries, each layer more complex than the last.
But Hassan cannot be trusted. Not just memories are disappearing, but pieces of reality itself. If Maggie cannot find out what Stanley did all those years ago, and what Hassan is after, she risks far more than her husband's life. The very course of human history hangs in the balance.
'A compelling narrative that takes the reader on a page-turning journey through both time and memory' T.R. Napper, award-winning author of 36 Streets
'A tender and compelling tale of love and memory across time and history. Thrilling, thought-provoking and melancholy. Superb' David Wragg, author of The Black Hawks
Reviews / Votes
PRAISE FOR DISSOLUTION:'A mind-bending thriller' The Scots Magazine
'Dissolution is an outstanding puzzle box of a novel. It's everything I love in fiction: thrilling, intelligent sci-fi with a touch of horror and a triumphant conclusion that made me want to punch the air in delight. As soon as I was done I wanted to read it all over again just to see how it all worked' Gareth Brown, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book of Doors
'A vivid, unputdownable story, about love and loss and all it means to be human' Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters
'A taut techno-thriller written with compassion and intelligence' T.R. Napper, award-winning author of 36 Streets
'Dissolution is at turns thrilling, mind-bending and heartbreaking. An extraordinary achievement from one of the UK's finest writers of cerebral speculative fiction' Oliver K. Langmead, author of Calypso
'Blending sci-fi with romance, Dissolution echoes The Time Traveler's Wife, weaving love, science and fate into a gripping narrative' The Scotsman
PRAISE FOR NICHOLAS BINGE:
'An accomplished and clever speculative thriller that explores the limits of human knowledge'
THE TIMES
'Gripping and intriguing.'
DAILY MAIL
'Jaw-dropping'
COSMOPOLITAN
'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 WASHINGTON POST
'Myth, physics, religion and human nature...it's all there in this brilliant, brain-twisting, high-concept tour-de-force that keeps you reading just as the scientists in the story are compelled to keep climbing.'
DAILY MAIL
'Binge is an author to watch and if his subsequent novels are anything close to ASCENSION, I'll be reading every single one. A fantastic achievement that'll make me look at my beloved mountains twice.'
TJ Klune, New York Times bestselling author
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
602 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-866882-2 (9780008668822)
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Nicholas Binge was born in Singapore and has since lived in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the UK. He is an author of speculative fiction and his recent novel Professor Everywhere was shortlisted for the Proverse Prize for Literature in Hong Kong. He has a deep love for anything weird, anything that pushes boundaries, and anything that makes him cry.
He lives and works in Edinburgh with his family, where he also teaches literature.
www.nicholasbinge.com
He lives and works in Edinburgh with his family, where he also teaches literature.
www.nicholasbinge.com