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An ambitious and intricate novel in stories about the ways everything in our world... no, our universe, are intimately connected. At the outset, scientists in Siberia are trying to determine whether newly uncovered organisms will cause harm to the human race, and from there, we see how a global plague unfolds. The connective tissues between each story are imaginative and fascinating and the payoff in the end is unexpected but satisfying. On a sentence level, the writing in this book is simply be...
**Forgot to say, obtained from NG etc.etc.*I have no idea how to even begin talking about this book. It kind of doesn’t help that it opens with a delirious letter from the editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury telling you how this book is all that and a bag of chips, which is just one of those moments when you remember how so many different worlds publishing encompasses. I mean, never in a gazillion years is the editor-in-chief of a publishing house going to lose his ever-loving shit over something from...
I saw a civilization that could destroy itself before it even reached the nearest star. How High We Go in the Dark is a book of possibilities. Life is as absurd as death. And what a beautiful mess we are blessed with. In a cave beneath the ancient ice of Siberia a virus sleeps. As Earth warms, the permafrost loosens her grip. The virus wakes and the planet is tested. How High We Go in the Dark is more of a collection of connected short stories than a direct novel—but that’s life isn’t it? A coll...
“It’s strange how the discovery of an ancient girl in Siberia and viruses we’ve never encountered before can both redefine what we know about being human and at the same time threaten our humanity” This is Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel and I think will be a much talked about novel in 2022. Ostensibly it is a part speculative fiction/part science fiction/part future dystopian novel, written in the form of a series of separate but interlinked stories – dealing with a global plague in the near
It's impossible to know how we'll react to losing a loved one until it happens. Similarly, it's difficult to predict how an ongoing pandemic and environmental crisis will shape our society's future. But these are issues which Sequoia Nagamatsu movingly examines on many different individual human levels within his imaginative and absorbing debut “How High We Go In The Dark”. The novel opens with the discovery of the preserved remains of a prehistoric girl who is found amidst the melting permafros...
| | blog | tumblr | letterboxd | |Lacklustre and monotonous, not only did How High We Go in the Dark fail to grip my attention but it also failed to elicit an emotional response on my part. It was a bland and repetitive affair, which is a pity given the hype around it. It didn’t help that a few weeks ago I read another ‘Cloud Atlas-esque’ novel. And while I didn’t fall head over heels in love with To Paradise, I cannot deny that Yanagihara’s prose is superb. Here instead…Sequoia Nagamatsu’s pr...
QUICK TAKE: I loved it. With so many pandemic books in the marketplace, this one still seemed to elevate itself above so many other titles in the genre. Loved the small connections between characters in each story, and ultimately there was a great message of hope and humanity amidst the darkness of some of the stories. Huge recommend.
A prescient collection of linked stories that reveals, in fact, how much worse our own pandemic could have been. Nagamatsu is at his best when he leans into the science fiction, spinning tales of space travel, talking pigs, and last-rites roller coasters. His imagination has room to breathe in these stories, and the pathos really surfaces in a George Saunders sort of way. I was less impressed with the range of voices he displayed in this collection. If you aren't using original narrators to high...
I really liked this thoughtful, panoramic sci-fi novel. Revolving around a pandemic – but written before the advent of Covid-19 – it’s told as a series of interconnected stories taking place between the 2030s and the early 22nd century. Among the most memorable characters we meet are an out-of-work comedian who lands a job at the ‘City of Laughter’, an amusement park where dying children can have one last day of fun before they’re euthanised; a scientist whose research brings him into contact wi...
I enjoyed many things about this - it is basically custom-made for me after all. I loved the changing perspectives as we moved further into the future, I loved revisiting people from earlier chapters as side characters in the later chapters, I enjoyed the weirdness Nagamatsu embraced and how unlikable he lets his characters be - but I did not love this book as a whole the way I wanted (and honestly expected) to. Parts are to do with the prose that did not always work for me, parts are definitely...
