Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.
The best experimentalist now working
*The Times*
Compelling, full of intriguing ideas, and yet retains an emotional
sincerity and sensitivity... In terms of genre, MacInnes is
gloriously promiscuous... covers everything from science-fiction to
horror to dystopia, and manages to breeze through all this and
more... It is written in a beautifully understated style - when you
are dealing with big concepts, it's probably best to steer clear of
too much flash prose - and will indubitably linger in my mind for a
long time to come.
*Scotsman*
MacInnes's writing is rigorous in its abstraction, yet there is a
beauty to it, a quiet compassion. For all his gathering of
evidence, he offers scant conclusions and in this he is like every
one of us, sharing our fear for the future even as he charts its
progress in meticulous detail. This novel confirms MacInnes as a
writer of serious ambition and an uncanny degree of talent.
*Guardian*
A ghost story, a novel of ideas whose allusiveness and vaguely
defined foreboding gives it an unsettling power.
*The Herald*
This book is mooted to be one of the best of 2020, featuring bonobo
crime and one man's head trauma in an extinguishing world.
*New Scientist*
Gathering Evidence makes a conspiracy theorist of the reader,
sending them scavenging across the pages for clues and cyphers, for
overlaps between strands which should be separate, for integrations
and disintegrations. Gathering Evidence sits comfortably alongside
peers such as Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Anna Lowenhaupt
Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World as a superbly current
novel of 21st century pattern recognition, portraying a world where
digital advancement and environmental devastation might be the same
thing.
*The List*
Remarkably prescient. MacInnes illustrates earth on the verge of
extinction with stunning creativity and verve.
*Book Riot*
MacInnes's intriguing second novel deserves to cement his
reputation as a bold and curious writer
*New Statesman*
MacInnes has created a strangely prescient vision that fuses risks
of ecological catastrophe, technological dependence, and social
isolation.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
MacInnes's prose contains the novel's ratcheting urgency with an
empiricist's precision. This is chaos in a specimen jar.
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