The Mountain in the Sea: Winner of the Locus Best First Novel Award

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Some mountain ranges are formed when two sections of the Earth’s outer surface, called tectonic plates, push against each other and the pressure forces the ground up. Keating, B.H., Fryer, P., Batiza, R., Boehlert, G.W. (Eds.), 1987: Seamounts, islands and atolls. Geophys. Monogr. 43:319–334.

The whole place used to be a prison. The graveyards are filled with generations of dissidents tortured to death by one government after another. A bad place to start a business, right? Maybe. But it was a good place if you just wanted to get by, to live. Sure, it had its problems—lots of them. Technically, the Global Conservation Park covered the entire archipelago, both land and water. Zero fishing or hunting allowed. There was even a UN watchdog organization that would show up once a year, write a report. But the reality was, there were always fishing boats coming in, tangling trawling nets in the reefs, using cyanide and dynamite. And the park rangers were all corrupt. How could they not be, with the salaries they were being paid? They sold turtle eggs, reef fish, whatever they could get their hands on. The locals were in on it—spearfishing, free diving for shellfish. Son, my assistant, had been a free diver.”Curiously, the contemporaneous Challenger Expedition apparently did not discover any seamounts. John Murray, the editor of the Challenger Reports, seemed to have been more concerned with ‘deeps’ than with submarine peaks as his maps from the expedition had many named deeps but few named bathymetric highs.

Likes: I love high-concept sci-fi (think Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Liu Cixin, or Frank Herbert), and The Mountain in the Sea is a fantastic new addition to the genre. The details about the octopus species and Ha’s research are grounded in what we currently know about cephalopod intelligence, but are enhanced with outstanding creative touches. The characters all felt new, unique, and complex; I especially liked the book’s take on androids. Sometimes high-concept sci-fi can get lost in the clouds, but this book is grounded in gritty sensory experience: the texture of sand, the smell of rotting fish, the sounds of the jungle canopy, the taste of a macaroon. The sense of ominous foreboding rachets up with each chapter, but who is the monster – the octopuses? The machines, many of them intelligent, who have come to dominate the world? Or us, the well-intentioned but fallible humans, who may or may not be in control? Make all your characters vehicles for plot, synopses of aforementioned octopus facts, or philosophizing about sentience and semiotics. Geography [ edit ] Bathymetric mapping of part of Davidson Seamount. The dots indicate significant coral nurseries. Sabía en parte de lo que son capaces los pulpos unos seres increíbles que muchos no sabréis que son uno de los seres más inteligentes y llenos de recursos del mundo. Con una capacidad de camuflaje que deja pasmado. Los lugareños cuentan historias de buzos y de personas desaparecidas. Otros asesinados de maneras violentas..

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OE Expedition Coordinator View the Alvin discovery's on the New England Seamount chain. (mp4, 10.8 MB) a b c Harris, P. T.; MacMillan-Lawler, M.; Rupp, J.; Baker, E. K. (2014). "Geomorphology of the oceans". Marine Geology. 352: 4–24. Bibcode: 2014MGeol.352....4H. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.01.011.I’m very torn about how I’m going to compose this review, and am in fact writing now to help MYSELF come to terms with this book. K. Hoernle; F. Hauff; R. Werner; P. van den Bogaard; A. D. Gibbons; S. Conrad & R. D. Müller (27 November 2011). "Origin of Indian Ocean Seamount Province by shallow recycling of continental lithosphere". Nature Geoscience. 4 (12): 883–887. Bibcode: 2011NatGe...4..883H. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.656.2778. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1331. I'm sad to say that I won't get the chance to experience this remarkable novel for the *first* time again!