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message 1: by Drace (last edited Dec 01, 2023 07:18AM) (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments The novel In Ascension has cleanup that needs to be done across several of its editions. I am an English speaker so this thread will focus on the English language editions of the book. The only order in which I have arranged these editions is the order in which they appear on the Editions page.

1. Australian Paperback Edition: In Ascension (ISBN 9781838956257)

- The publisher is missing. It was published by Atlantic Books.

- The publication date is incorrect. It should be April 3, 2023.

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2. UK Audible Edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

- This edition is mistakenly labeled as an audiobook. The April 6, 2023 publication date indicates that this is the UK Audible edition. It needs to be set to Audible rather than Audiobook.

- The ASIN is missing. It should be B0BVDGG9TG.

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3. UK Paperback Edition: In Ascension (ISBN 9781838956271)

- The ISBN-10 and ASIN are missing. The number for both is 1838956271.

- The page count is missing. It should have 512 pages.

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4. US Paperback Edition: In Ascension (ISBN 9780802163462)

- The publisher is listed as “Grove Press, Black Cat”. Black Cat is the imprint of Grove Press that the book is being published under, so it should just read Black Cat.

- The page count is missing. It should have 512 pages.

- The description is missing formatting and paragraph breaks. It should read as follows:

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life

Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth’s first life forms – what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.

Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency’s work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how – no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope – we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.

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5. US Kindle Edition: In Ascension (ASIN B0CLQNNJGK)

- The cover art is missing. Link: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8...

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6. UK Ebook Edition: In Ascension (ISBN 9781838956264)

- The ASIN is missing. It should be 1838956263.

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7. US Ebook Edition: In Ascension (ISBN 9780802163479)

- The ASIN is missing. It should be 0802163475.

- The book is using the UK ebook cover art. Link to the US cover art: https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-con...

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8. Missing Edition: UK CD Audiobook

The UK CD Audiobook edition of the book is missing from Goodreads. Information as follows:

TITLE: In Ascension
AUTHOR: Martin MacInnes
NARRATOR: Freya Miller
ISBN-10: 100411365X
ISBN-13: 9781004113651
ASIN: 100411365X
PUBLISHER: W.F. Howes
DATE PUBLISHED: June 1, 2023
FORMAT: CD Audiobook
DESCRIPTION:
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the marine world of her childhood, she excels in postgraduate research on ancient algae. When an unfathomable vent appears in the mid-Atlantic floor, Leigh joins the investigating team; what she finds there will change her life forever. Around the same time, a trio of engineers, unknown to each other, make a seismic breakthrough in rocket propulsion, announcing an almost limitless era of space exploration. Billions of dollars is poured into projects, and Leigh's classified research on the ocean vent sees her recruited to develop an experimental food source for off-world travel. From her base in the Mojave desert, she's drawn further into the space agency's work, where she learns of a series of anomalies suggesting a beacon sent from the far side of the solar system. In responding to this beacon, Leigh embarks on a journey that will take her across the breadth of the cosmos and the fullness of a single human life.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://image.wfhowes.co.uk/CX9159/CX...

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9. Missing Edition: UK MP3 CD Audiobook

The UK MP3 CD Audiobook edition of the book is missing from Goodreads. Information as follows:

TITLE: In Ascension
AUTHOR: Martin MacInnes
NARRATOR: Freya Miller
ISBN-10: 1004113676
ISBN-13: 9781004113675
ASIN: 1004113676
PUBLISHER: W.F. Howes
DATE PUBLISHED: June 1, 2023
FORMAT: MP3 CD Audiobook
DESCRIPTION: [same as CD Audiobook]
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://image.wfhowes.co.uk/MPCD7830/...


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments A week has passed, so I'm bumping the thread.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments One-week bump.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments Another bump.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments Bumping.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments Bump.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments Bump once again.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments Another one-week bump.


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message 14: by Patricia (last edited Feb 02, 2024 08:50PM) (new)

Patricia Mae (patriciaflair) | 2412 comments #1 Done
#2 Done
#3 Done
#4 Done - Someone put pages and the description. I changed the publisher now in Black Cat
#5 Done
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
#6 Done


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Patricia Mae (patriciaflair) | 2412 comments #7 Done. Someone uploaded the cover
#8 I don't know what to put on format. Is CD Audiobook is same as Audio CD format?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

#9 done
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

If you have any questions or corrections, just message me:) You can mark "Complete" on your post!


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Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments 5. The cover art has this weird extra blank space at the bottom of it that shouldn't be there. Could you please reupload it? https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8...

7. This is the US ebook edition, but it's still using the UK ebook edition cover art. Could you please change it to this art: https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-con...

8. The format should be Audio CD, you're correct. My mistake.


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Patricia Mae (patriciaflair) | 2412 comments Drace wrote: "5. The cover art has this weird extra blank space at the bottom of it that shouldn't be there. Could you please reupload it? https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8...

7. This is..."


I already change the format in #8. However, I'm not sure in #5 and #7.
Replacing or removing the cover of an existing edition, including the covers of advance reader copies, is in violation of Goodreads policy


message 18: by Drace (new)

Drace (dracenines) | 7515 comments Patricia wrote: "Drace wrote: "5. The cover art has this weird extra blank space at the bottom of it that shouldn't be there. Could you please reupload it? https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8......"

Goodreads allows cover art changes if there's a legitimate reason for it, such as the incorrect cover art being used. There's a reason the librarian group has an entire folder for cover art issues.

I'll mark this thread as complete and raise the issues with the Kindle and ebook cover art in that folder. Thanks for all of your help!


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