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Steven Gould's Blind Waves is one of those books that makes you hold your breath a lot. This SF thriller takes place along what's left of the Texas Gulf coast after melting Antarctic ice has drowned much of the world. In New Galveston, a floating city, our plucky heroine Patricia Beeman uses her submarine to do salvage and inspection work. But when she stumbles upon a sunken ship full of freshly dead immigrants, she gets tangled in a dangerous web of politics, hatred, and corruption. Enter Commander Thomas Becket of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now an armed force bigger than the Navy). Patricia and Thomas band together to beat the bad guys, and the adventure that follows delivers on all counts. Plenty of tense underwater action and zingy plot twists will keep thriller fans turning pages, while snappy dialogue, a delightfully budding romance, and homages to Shakespeare and Dorothy L. Sayers add literary flair. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
The polar ice caps have melted and much of the United States is underwater in this imaginative new novel by the author of Helm. The government has been forced to relocate hundreds of millions of people dispossessed by the floods, while a few high-tech floating cities are protected by machine-gun-toting patrol boats. As the U.S. slides toward isolationism, Patricia Beenan, a deep sea salvager, discovers what remains of the Open Lotus, a bullet-riddled wreck packed with the bodies of illegal immigrants. She captures the horror on video, prompting the immediate interest of CNN but also of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which dispatches Commander Thomas Becket to assess whether the shooting was the result of INS error. As soon as Becket and Beenan meet, they fall madly in love. Their passion is thwarted, however, when they realize they are being pursued by thugs who want to make them disappear. Becket and Beenan learn that Beenan's mom, a congresswoman, plans to propose repealing the Emergency Immigration Act, thus embracing all of the refugees camped on the floating cities as citizens and rekindling the country's kinder, gentler side. Using Beenan's submersible, the dynamic love duo expose the opponents to this measure and their plot to sink some of the floating platforms. The SF element of this novel is much crisper than its romantic aspect, which overwhelms the pace and tenor of what might have been a breathless future thriller, but isn't. (Feb.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Steven Gould's Blind Waves is one of those books that makes you hold your breath a lot. This SF thriller takes place along what's left of the Texas Gulf coast after melting Antarctic ice has drowned much of the world. In New Galveston, a floating city, our plucky heroine Patricia Beeman uses her submarine to do salvage and inspection work. But when she stumbles upon a sunken ship full of freshly dead immigrants, she gets tangled in a dangerous web of politics, hatred, and corruption. Enter Commander Thomas Becket of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now an armed force bigger than the Navy). Patricia and Thomas band together to beat the bad guys, and the adventure that follows delivers on all counts. Plenty of tense underwater action and zingy plot twists will keep thriller fans turning pages, while snappy dialogue, a delightfully budding romance, and homages to Shakespeare and Dorothy L. Sayers add literary flair. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
The polar ice caps have melted and much of the United States is underwater in this imaginative new novel by the author of Helm. The government has been forced to relocate hundreds of millions of people dispossessed by the floods, while a few high-tech floating cities are protected by machine-gun-toting patrol boats. As the U.S. slides toward isolationism, Patricia Beenan, a deep sea salvager, discovers what remains of the Open Lotus, a bullet-riddled wreck packed with the bodies of illegal immigrants. She captures the horror on video, prompting the immediate interest of CNN but also of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which dispatches Commander Thomas Becket to assess whether the shooting was the result of INS error. As soon as Becket and Beenan meet, they fall madly in love. Their passion is thwarted, however, when they realize they are being pursued by thugs who want to make them disappear. Becket and Beenan learn that Beenan's mom, a congresswoman, plans to propose repealing the Emergency Immigration Act, thus embracing all of the refugees camped on the floating cities as citizens and rekindling the country's kinder, gentler side. Using Beenan's submersible, the dynamic love duo expose the opponents to this measure and their plot to sink some of the floating platforms. The SF element of this novel is much crisper than its romantic aspect, which overwhelms the pace and tenor of what might have been a breathless future thriller, but isn't. (Feb.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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