This job will eat you alive. From the bestselling author of Ascension, Nicholas Binge, Abyss is a creeping, Lovecraftian horror about work, technology and existential dread.
Joe Rice is lost lonely, disconnected and terminally online. His new job as an administrative assistant at the Ponos corporation seems like just another unfulfilling stop-gap. But from his first day, something is deeply wrong. The vast Canary Wharf office is empty, his line manager is a bundle of paranoid energy, and his work is monitored by WellBot, an AI wellness chatbot that demands total honesty while tracking his every move.
As Joes tasks descend into a surreal nightmare, hell eventually learn that handing in his notice could have deadly consequences . . .
Abyss does a fantastic job of staying uniformly creepy and claustrophobic, drawing its inspiration from a wide variety of sources while remaining trippy as heck The Fantasy Hive
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Praise for Nicholas Binge
Old-school creepy . . . five-star horror Stephen King
Extremity is a fantastic, twisty, exhilarating novella . . . easily in the running for best novella of the year The Fantasy Hive
Binge is an author to watch TJ Klune
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Old-school creepy . . . five-star horror -- Stephen King on Ascension A rollicking good read. Playful, inventive and vivid, with addictive narrative drive -- Lionel Shriver, internationally bestselling author of We Need to Talk About Kevin on Ascension A weird and wonderful horror novel . . . Binge is an author to watch -- TJ Klune, author of The House in the Cerulean Sea on Ascension Binge has written a profound and elegiac story that examines science, faith and the concept of humanity itself what it means to live and die, to yearn and strive, and all the spaces in between -- Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters on Ascension Extremity is a fantastic, twisty, exhilarating novella . . . easily in the running for best novella of the year * The Fantasy Hive * Abyss does a fantastic job of staying uniformly creepy and claustrophobic, drawing its inspiration from a wide variety of sources while remaining trippy as heck. * The Fantasy Hive *
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A propulsive corporate horror where one man's descent into the nine-to-five becomes an experience of terrors beyond comprehension. For fans of Severance, Lovecraft and John Scalzi.
Nicholas Binges work has been featured in The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, and more.
His work has been translated into eleven languages and multiple works are in development for film and television. Ascension, a New York Times Editors Choice Pick, has been hailed as a must-read 5-star horror novel by Stephen King, and was a nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 for Best Science Fiction novel. His novel, Dissolution, described as an expertly crafted puzzle by New Scientist, released to international critical acclaim.
