Tomes of Miscellany

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Title: Deep Fathom
Author: James Rollins
Publisher: AvonBooks
Format: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2001

The first solar eclipse of the new millenium brought with it unimagineable changes that threatened to tear the world apart. Earthquakes devastated the Pacific Rim nations all along the Ring of Fire. Subsequent tidal waves did more damage. The Aleutians vanished beneath the sea, while an underwater city rose from the ocean near Okinawa. And deep beneath the ocean's surface one man may have uncovered a clue not only to a lost language, but to the existence and destruction of a legendary continent. But with the world he once knew hovering on the verge of nuclear war, can Jack Kirkland maintain his independence from world matters? Or will he be drawn into a showdown with his fiercest rival and the life he left behind?

Deep Fathom, much like the other books by the same author, extrapolates an amazing possibility and spins it into an amazing story. Set against the backdrop of a world on the verge of self-destruction, this novel is more than just a struggle against real or imagined enemies: it's a struggle to save the world from itself.

There were times when some of the discussion became really confusing and filled with the over-my-head concepts that I tend to just accept and move past. I will admit that it's easier to comprehend things like dark space and dark matter than it is to understand how anti-matter can exist in the material universe. Still, I found the discussion of the existence of Mu to be much more interesting. I have to wonder how much of the author's extrapolations were based on real legends and stories circulating around the Pacific, and how much was purely fabricated.

Despite all the scientific discourse, Deep Fathom still reads pretty easily. Although I approached it with some reluctance--I always do, for some reason--once I got started it was hard to put down. I think you'll see what I mean when you read it for yourself.

Rating: Thumbs up! Who thought a hateful rivalry could ever turn into race against destruction?

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This page posted August 16, 2002.

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