The novel “Ascension” by Nicholas Binge was published for the first time in 2023.

When Ben Tunmore discovers that his brother Harold is still alive and locked up in a mental institution after disappearing and being presumed dead for many years, he’s determined to understand what happened to him. However, getting answers from someone who only speaks seemingly nonsense is difficult. Harold’s suicide leaves Ben and his remaining relatives devastated.

Ben Tunmore discovers a series of letters written by Harold and addressed to Harriet, Ben’s daughter, whom he loved. What he recounts in those letters often seems nonsensical, the product of a sick mind inventing absurd conspiracies. Ben decides to make the contents of those letters public so that anyone who reads them can decide if the events Harold recounted during a secret expedition to a mountain that appeared in the Pacific Ocean actually occurred.

The novel “The Genocides” by Thomas M. Disch was published for the first time in 1965.

A few years after the appearance of the Plants, the Tassel community on the shores of Lake Superior struggles to survive. Anderson is formally the village’s mayor, but he’s actually a sort of absolute king, ruling the small group of survivors with an iron fist, using a gun as a symbol of his power.

When another group of survivors, traveling in search of stability, approaches the village, its members are mercilessly killed. Only Jeremiah Orville, a mining engineer, and nurse Alice Nemerov, considered useful to the community, are spared. The Plants are making it increasingly difficult to grow crops and raise animals, and the arrival of spheres that set buildings ablaze triggers an even deeper crisis, especially as Anderson grows weaker.

The novel “The Eris Anomaly…beyond Pluto” (“Il Mistero di Eris…oltre Plutone”) by Angelo Messina was published for the first time in 2023 and translated into English by the author in 2025.

Adam is traveling to the dwarf planet Eris to investigate a strange anomaly in its orbit. That journey represents an important milestone in a journey that began thirty years earlier, changing his life and leading him to have a growing influence on humanity.

Thirty years earlier, Adam was taking what he thought was a normal walk in the woods when he found himself in a completely different place. There, he begins a contact with an object that seems to possess a consciousness and progressively increases his mental abilities, allowing him to develop technologies useful to humanity, but only if he manages to avoid certain negative tendencies.

The novel “Austral” by Paul McAuley was published for the first time in 2017.

Austral “Stral” Morales Ferrado is a corrections officer in a labor camp. She’s also in a relationship with Keever Bishop, the most dangerous inmate, who continues to run his criminal enterprise from his cell. She has discovered she’s pregnant but is keeping it a secret for fear that Keever decides to get rid of her. Keever is planning his escape, and the opportunity comes when the inauguration of three new bridges will feature a prominent presence, Honourable Deputy Alberto Toomy, who is also Stral’s uncle.

The escape plan is well-conceived and involves Stral confronting her uncle, taking advantage of the fact that the two of them belong to branches of the family that had virtually opposite destinies. Stral realizes that some of Keever’s accomplices are trying to kidnap Kamilah, Alberto Toomy’s daughter, and decides to intervene without considering the consequences. She quickly realizes she’s in deep trouble and decides to kidnap her cousin herself for a ransom that will allow her to leave Antarctica and seek a better life.