The Deep

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It was a constant source of anxiety. There I was, sitting with my dog, reading with this incredible sense of foreboding. I just didn't like it. THE DEEP deftly mashes up spellbinding historical fiction, adroit commentary on class and gender, and a classic yet surprising ghost story. Annie’s tale is truly haunting .”

There's more mysteries hidden by the sea than you or I can fathom and once in a while she unravels one..."

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a b "Gary K. Wolfe and Ian Mond Review The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes". Locus Online. 2020-02-11 . Retrieved 2020-11-06. As far as the comparisons to The Thing, Alien, and The Abyss, I would say this successfully rips off all three without adding anything new to the spirit of those films.I'm talking, he is just a terrible, horrible human being that I would rate right up there with Professor Umbridge as one of my most hated characters of all time. However, this is juxtaposed against the revelation that the wajinru warred against the surface world a generation prior. This is told through the memories of Basha, Yetu's predecessor, who lived when the wajinru were threatened by global warming and energy companies desiring the fossil fuels lying below the ocean bed: "Below us, deep beneath the sand, there is a substance they crave. It is their life force. They feast on it like blood." Basha led the wajinru, whose emotions can telekinetically control the ocean's water, in creating a massive storm and tidal wave that wreaked devastation on the surface world. A primary complaint I see about this book is that it heavily borrows ideas from a few other famous tales (Sphere and Event Horizon in particular). I can’t really speak to this topic since I am not overly familiar with either of those stories. If I had been, I may have felt differently about this story. Who knows?

The Trieste is the perfect embodiment of The Impossible Place Where Humans Should Never Even Dream of Going – it’s malevolent and frightening and wrong in the way of other great vessels and habitats that have strayed too far from the realms of human life. Think Event Horizon, but instead of the cold vacuum of space, the Trieste is in the deepest, darkest bowels of the earth. The same sort of interdimensional Utimate Evil reigns supreme, though – an insidiousness worse than one could imagine or comprehend lurks in these depths, ancient and cruel and calculating. Cutter does a beautiful job of building up the tension of this entity within the Trieste‘s warped walls – there literally is no escape, and a plethora of dangers await.Brown, Alex (2019-11-05). "Wade in the Water: The Deep by Rivers Solomon". Tor.com . Retrieved 2020-11-06. Luke gets the message that his weirdo genius brother Clayton needs him. Clayton is 8 flipping miles under the sea at a lab called the Trieste. Superhuman Durability: The Deep has shown the ability to withstand greater force against his body than that of normal human beings without experiencing physical harm. He was able leap off a giant boat into the water and survive unscathed. He has also claimed to have swam in the Mariana Trench, which has a water pressure in excess of 8 tons per square inch, or 1,000 times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level, on the ocean floor. [6]

When we meet Yetu in The Deep, she has shouldered the heavy cross of her ancestors’s memories for most of her life. As the “remembering” is drawing near, she must decide if the history and the needs of the wajinru are worth risking her own life to keep carrying. But Deep's sycophantic nature has its limits. When he learned that A-Train, whom Deep recruited to join the Church, has been re-accepted into The Seven while he was not, he storms out of Alastair's office in a rage, apparently quitting the Church. However, after returning to The Seven, Deep again displays his sycophantic attitude, this time to Homelander and always following his wife's instructions doing exactly what she tells him to do to gain Homelander's respect. For instance, Deep fired almost the entire Crime Analytics Department right after being named the new Head of that subdivision, because all of them had tweets criticizing Homelander and blaming others, such as Ashley Barrett, for his mistakes. There is a specific depth you'll hit where the soul finds it impossible to harmonize with it's surroundings.Administrator (May 11, 2020). "Review "The Deep" by Alma Katsu". Suspense Magazine . Retrieved July 15, 2020. This drove me nuts. I just couldn't let it go for the remaining ~60% of the novel. If anyone thinks that neutralizing the guy with the knife is a secondary priority, feel free to comment below. The freshman trials were intended to be the ninth-graders' introduction to Nemo's technology, but Hewett feels that under the circumstances he must now tell them everything. Ana's friend and classmate Ester Harding, an orphan who is Cyrus Harding's fourth great-granddaughter, had been given the information months before but was sworn to secrecy by the Harding-Pencroft Academy board of trustees, under penalty of disinheritance. Long before the development of modern genetic science, Captain Nemo had learned how to biometrically link his greatest inventions to his own genes so that they might only be operated by himself or his direct descendants, which means that only Ana, who is Captain Nemo's fourth great-granddaughter and (it is believed) last surviving direct descendant, may now operate them.