Down to a Sunless Sea (Paperback)

from unclebob53703

A solid page turner that seems to go on auto pilot in the last part of the book--the whole final leg is literally devoid of tension or coflict, and there's a twist at the very end that buggers belief. Still worth the read, if only for the very believable dystopian world he creates at the beginnin...

from auntmarge64

Terrific apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic fiction from 1979. A bit dated, and slow for the first quarter of the book, but then edge-of-the-seat suspenseful until the very last page. Jonah Scott, a British pilot who makes rescue flights across the Atlantic to a failed and violent post-oil America, tel...

from TheLiveSoundGuy

This pre/post nuclear war meltdown story felt so real that I found myself unable to put the book down. It is one of those books that makes you stay up all night because you just can't go to sleep while the character's future is still unresolved. The science was skeptical, and some of the scenario...

from john257hopper

Rather uneven post-apocalyptic novel. The first 100 pages are a bit slow, with preparations for a plane leaving the US taking 600 people away from a society that has collapsed in the wake of economic disaster. Just after they take off, drama and tension explode as nuclear war breaks out, engulfin...

from TheLiveSoundGuy

This pre/post nuclear war meltdown story felt so real that I found myself unable to put the book down. It is one of those books that makes you stay up all night because you just can't go to sleep while the character's future is still unresolved. The science was skeptical, and some of the scenario...