festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize.
His debut novel, Infinite Ground, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire Awards.
His second novel, Gathering Evidence, led to his inclusion in the National Centre for Writing / British Councils’s list of ten writers shaping the UK’s future.
MacInnes's newest novel is In Ascension.
At the Guardian he tagged ten titles "capturing scientists’ obsessive quest for knowledge," including:
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerRead about the other entries on the list.
The four women who enter Area X are named only by their profession: biologist; anthropologist; psychologist; surveyor. It is the biologist who is closest to VanderMeer’s heart, clear in the gorgeous accounts of the living world they walk through and in the novel’s concern with ecstatic dissolution and eroded borders, an awful commonality linking all things. The novel is suffused in beauty and grief, as the biologist goes on, determined to find out what it all means.
Annihilation is among John Searles's five novels set in abandoned places, Rin Chupeco's five top stories where nature does its best to kill you, and Nicholas Royle's ten top lighthouses in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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