Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

By: Adam Roberts

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Synopsis: It is 1958 and the 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?In collaboration with acclaimed artist Mahendra Singh has revisited Jules Verne's classic SF novel. Together they have come up with a unique vision.Read by Christian Coulson(p) 2014 Macmillan Audio

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781409157397
Related ISBNs:: 9781473215313
Publisher:: Orion
Date of Addition:: 03/02/22
Copyrighted By:: Adam Roberts
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Narrated By:: Christian Coulson
Categories:: History, Horror, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.