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No cover — Mira Grant: Into the Drowning Deep (2017, Orbit)

English language

Published 2017 by Orbit.

ISBN:: 978-0-316-37938-0

(2 reviews)

"Seven years ago Atagaris set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy. Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they're not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life's work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves"--

4 editions

📚torstein📚 reviewed Into the drowning deep by Seanan McGuire (Rolling in the Deep)

Congo on the Sea

4 stars

As mentioned before, this book feels like a throwback to that time in the 90s when everybody tried to emulate Michael Crichton - but in a good way. Maybe it is just a bit of nostalgia on my part, I loved those kind of books as a kid. But regardless, I found this book highly entertaining; a mix of plausible sounding marine biology jargon and some sciency sounding stuff I think is all made up (in good Crichton tradition); easily recognisable good guys and some cartoonishly stereotyped bad guys and not at least an almost human, still but wholly Other Big Bad. In other words, this is - in very broad strokes - a "Congo" set on the high seas.

I'm very forgiving when it comes to this kind of literature. It is pure entertainment, an action movie in book form. If there is is anything to nitpick at it …

As mentioned before, this book feels like a throwback to that time in the 90s when everybody tried to emulate Michael Crichton - but in a good way. Maybe it is just a bit of nostalgia on my part, I loved those kind of books as a kid. But regardless, I found this book highly entertaining; a mix of plausible sounding marine biology jargon and some sciency sounding stuff I think is all made up (in good Crichton tradition); easily recognisable good guys and some cartoonishly stereotyped bad guys and not at least an almost human, still but wholly Other Big Bad. In other words, this is - in very broad strokes - a "Congo" set on the high seas.

I'm very forgiving when it comes to this kind of literature. It is pure entertainment, an action movie in book form. If there is is anything to nitpick at it is that some of minor details have aged poorly - so I prefer to think of it as set in a parallel universe 2022. There never was a pandemic, politicians seem to act on the climate crisis, Tesla's optimism re self driving cars were not a sham to lure investors etc... Perhaps the biggest departure from our reality (except the Big Bad) is an American built ship run by an American corporation with coed showers! What an absolute HR nightmare 🤣

coral reviewed Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

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5 stars

I went in with high expectations (and not having read the short story prequel). They were met. This is delightfully horrifying--less viscerally so than Grant's Parasitology series, at least for me, but in a way that will stick with me, the next time I'm far enough out on the water that I can't see the shore. If you're a long-time Grant fan, it's worth saying: this one is more gruesome than the Newsflesh series, but not as lingeringly gory as some horror stuff by other authors can be.

As is universal (or at least nearly so?) in Grant/McGuire books, this one has people of various (dis)ability levels, of various races and orientations. It includes more of the human experience than most speculative fiction seems to, and it is better for the inclusion.

And the science is fantastic, as always.

Subjects

Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure
Fiction, sea stories