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Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

by Adam Charles Roberts

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"Adam Roberts revisits Jules Verne's classic novel in a collaboration with the illustrator behind a recent ... edition of The Hunting of the Snark. It is 1958 and France's first nuclear submarine, Plongeur, leaves port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first time, are one of the Navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of sailors, engineers, and scientists. The Plongeur makes her first dive and goes down, and down and down. Out of control, the submarine plummets to a depth where the pressure will crush her hull, killing everyone on board, and beyond"--

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SubmarinesSubmarines (Ships)Nuclear submarinesFictionUnderwater explorationFICTION / Science Fiction / AdventureFiction, science fiction, general

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