Divine Heists, Deep-Sea Discoveries, and Climate Utopias: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

If this year has taught us anything, it’s that we know so very little about the depths of the ocean; and that if we want to know more, we should trust the people who have done the careful work to explore it. James Sturz applies his extensive experience as a oceanic journalist and deep-sea diver to this vividly strange story told from the perspective of one of seven tribes of sentient ocean-dwellers, collectively known as the yc. “The rule of the ocean is finders-keepers,” our narrator explains—but when they find a decomposing human corpse, it forces the tribes of the yc to question their own existence and whether there is intelligent life up there.

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