by Frank Herbert
bookshelves: spring-2015, published-1956, tbr-busting-2015, adventure, classic, psychology, religion, seven-seas, under-1000-ratings, sci-fi, spies Read from April 13 to 14, 2015 Description: Twenty subtugs had been lost in the attempt to bring back oil from the undersea fields on the enemy's b...
Herbert, of course, is a science fiction writer famous for Dune and its sequels, an epic tale of an extreme environment where its people wear special suits to preserve and reclaim every bit of water. The oceans of our Earth are also extreme environments, one few science fiction authors have mined, d...
I just finished reviewing Peter Maas's The Terrible Hours, and thought of this book for the first time in years... another quite decent submarine story. It's not the best thing Herbert wrote, but compares very favorably with the later volumes in the Dune saga; I also preferred it to the (in my humbl...
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