Nicholas Binge

Nicholas Binge is an author of science fiction and horror, and is a grandson of music composer Ronald Binge. He also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Nick Brucker.

His works include the novels Ascension and Dissolution, as well as the novellas Extremity and Abyss. He has won or been nominated for the Proverse Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards, and the Premio Ignotus. His work has been translated into over twenty-five languages and he has multiple projects in development for film and television.

Binge was born in Singapore, and has lived in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the UK. He currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lectures in creative writing.

Career His first novel, Professor Everywhere, was selected as a prize-winner by the Proverse Prize for Literature in 2020. In 2023, his speculative thriller, Ascension, sold at auction to Harper Voyager in the UK, as well to Riverhead Books in the United States, as well as selling the translation rights into ten other territories. It was also optioned for a major motion picture.

His 2025 novel, Dissolution, released to critical acclaim from The New York Times, The Guardian, New Scientist, and more. It is being adapted into a major motion picture by Sony Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment, with Oscar-nominated Eric Heisserer penning the adaptation.

As well as future novels from Harper Voyager UK / Riverhead Books, Binge sold two works to Tor, both releasing to critical acclaim in their respective genre spaces. The first, Extremity, published in October 2025 and was described by Fantasy Hive as "being easily in the running for the best novella of the year." The second, Abyss, was published under Tor's horror imprint Nightfire, and slated as "The horror book for our modern age" by Grimdark Magazine.

Under his pen name Nick Brucker, Binge sold the novel White Smoke, ‘a page-turning heist set among a group of duplicitous conmen and thieves, who are determined to steal the Vatican’s most remarkable treasures’, to Bonnier Books imprint Zaffre in early 2026 for six-figures at what was reported to be a highly competitive seven-publisher auction. It has since sold in at least 23 territories internationally for translation and Deadline reported that it was being adapted by A24 for a prestige television series with Benedict Cumberbatch producing and starring in a lead role.

His next published novel will be Exhumation, once again with Harper Voyager UK and Riverhead Books, in October 2026.

Published Works

2020. Professor Everywhere. Proverse Hong Kong. ISBN 978-9888491858 2023. Ascension. Harper Voyager UK / Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-0008505813 2025. Dissolution. Harper Voyager UK / Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-0008668822 2025. Extremity. Tordotcom / Tor UK. ISBN 978-1035085866 2026. Abyss. Tor Nightfire / Tor UK. ISBN 978-1037402098 2026. Exhumation. Harper Voyager UK / Riverhead Books. ISBN 979-8217179183 2027. White Smoke. Bonnier Books UK