Adam Roberts and artist Mahendra
Singh have revisited Jules Verne's classic SF novel with Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (now available from Gollancz £16.99).
“It is 1958 and France's first
nuclear submarine, Plongeur, leaves
port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first
time, one of the navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of
sailors, engineers and scientists.
The Plongeur makes her first dive and goes down, and down and down...
Out of control, the submarine plummets to a depth where the pressure will crush
her hull, killing everyone on board, and beyond. The pressure builds, the hull
protests, the crew prepare for death, the boat reaches the bottom of the sea
and finds ... nothing.
Her final dive continues, the
pressure begins to relent, but the depth gauge is useless. They have gone miles
down. Hundreds of miles, thousands...
And so it goes on. And on board
the crew succumb to madness, betrayal, religious mania and murder. Has the Plongeur left the limits of our world
and gone elsewhere?”
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea contains 33 full page pen and
ink illustrations by Mahendra Singh.
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