A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind's vexed relationship with nature Ascension is a novel about the end of nature, or rather, the end of three "natures" the time just before Darwin changed the natural world; the 1980s, just as the digital and genetic revolutions begin to replace "nature" with "environment"; and today, a time when we have the ability to manipulate nature at both the scale of the planet and...