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I have just finished Martin MacInnes鈥檚 , one of the best sci-fi novels I鈥檝e read for ages. It is narrated by Leigh, a marine biologist who joins a team exploring a 36-kilometre-deep trench in the Atlantic Ocean. Around the same time, NASA engineers make a breakthrough in propulsion tech that will transform space travel, and Leigh is hired by a secretive space agency.
I鈥檓 not sure I鈥檝e read a book about space exploration that also felt so grounded in the human world, or one about the origins of life on Earth that also looked so far into the future. My mother, who I鈥檝e already forced it on, agrees.
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This week, I also visited in London (ends 25 June), a multisensory event intended to 鈥渇ire your happiness hormone levels鈥� through a mix of pillow fights, a lights-and-mirrors room and a digital forest complete with woodland smells. Let鈥檚 just say, I think my dopamine would have seen a greater spike had I not been accompanied by my children.
