Dissolution: A Novel

Nicholas Binge is a bestselling author of speculative thrillers, literary science-fiction, and horror. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, The FT, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, and more.

His first novel, Professor Everywhere, was selected as a prize-winner by The Proverse Prize for Literature in Hong Kong. His most recent novel, Ascension, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick, was named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Goodreads, The LA Times, and The Sunday Times, as well as being a finalist for the 2023 Goodreads’ Choice Awards and the 2024 Ignotus Award for Best Novel. It has since been critically praised across almost every major media outlet, as well as being translated into nine languages and being optioned for film.

His next novel, Dissolution, will be out internationally in March 2025. It is also being adapted into a major motion picture by Sony Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment, with the script penned by Oscar-nominated Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Birdbox, Shadow & Bone).

Binge has lived in Singapore, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, and is currently based in Edinburgh, UK. Outside of fiction, he has written for The Guardian, Literary Hub, and CrimeReads, amongst others. When he’s not writing himself, he also lectures in creative writing at Edinburgh Napier University. He is an active member of ESFF (Edinburgh Science-Fiction & Fantasy) and can often be found at book festivals and events around Scotland and the rest of the UK.