Undersea Science Fiction Books

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Science Fiction stories that take place under the water -- be it on Earth or some other planet. We are not including stories that take place above the water (waterworlds).
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Twenty-thousand Leagues Under The Sea

by Jules Verne

The "man who invented the future," Verne created the prototype for modern science fiction. His prophetic 1870 adventure novel, featuring a bizarre underwater craft commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, predated the submarine. The crowning achievement of Verne's literary career, the book influenced H. G. Wells and later generations of writers.
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Startide Rising

by David Brin

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David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.  Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race.  But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?

The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history.  Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.
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Locus Science Fiction
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Sphere

by Michael Crichton

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“Ingenious and beguiling.”
—Time

“Crichton keeps us guessing at every turn in his best work since The Andromeda Strain.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Sphere may be Crichton’s best novel, but even if it ranked only second or third, it would be a must for suspense fans.”
—Miami Herald

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills. The gripping story of a group of American scientists sent to the ocean floor to investigate an alien ship, only to confront a terrifying discovery that defies imagination, Sphere is Crichton prime—truly masterful fiction from the ingenious mind that brought us Prey, State of Fear, and Jurassic Park.

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The Deep Range

by Arthur C. Clarke

It is the 21st century and humans have finally conquered the sea. Professionals now harvest plankton to feed the world. However, the sea has not given up all its secrets, but men like Walter Franklin are determined to find them out.
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The Rifters

by Peter Watts

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This is the way the world ends:

 

A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent.  The target was an ancient microbe—voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction—and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who’d inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement.

 

The resulting tsunami killed millions.  It’s not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage.

 

Unless, of course, you miss the target.

 

Now North America’s west coast lies in ruins.  Millions of refugees rally around a mythical figure mysteriously risen from the deep sea.  A world already wobbling towards collapse barely notices the spread of one more blight along its shores.  And buried in the seething fast-forward jungle that use to be called Internet, something vast and inhuman reaches out to a woman with empty white eyes and machinery in her chest.  A woman driven by rage, and incubating Armageddon.

 

Her name is Lenie Clarke.  She’s a rifter.  She’s not nearly as dead as everyone thinks.

 

And the whole damn world is collateral damage as far as she’s concerned. . . .

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Under Pressure

by Frank Herbert

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Dolphin Island

by Arthur C. Clarke

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Dark Life

by Kat Falls

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The Undersea Trilogy

by Frederik Pohl

When Jim Eden's uncle, the inventor of a valuable undersea device, disappears while testing a new undersea mining process, Eden heads for the undersea mining colony to investigate on his own.
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The Watch Below

by James White

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Dome

by Michael Reaves

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Leviathan

by Robert Shea

Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.
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Half The Day Is Night

by Maureen F. McHugh

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Reefsong

by Carol Severance

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After narrowly escaping death in a forest fire, Angie Dinsman found herself under the control of the World Life Company. They promptly equipped her with webbed hands and gills—-creating a half-fish, half-woman. Her mission is to uncover secret research files on the waterworld of Lesaat. But first she has to undergo the terrifying process of learning to breathe underwater. After mastering the basics of survival, she faces an insurmountable challenge—-finding the information that could end starvation on Earth while sabotaging the Company’s evil plans.
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Destination Infinity

by Henry Kuttner

Far beneath the turbulent seas of Venus lived all that remained of humanity. Earth was gone -- a fast-fading atomic noval in the evening sky. But can Reed's daring plan to colonize the surface of Venus possibly work...? Originally published as "Fury."
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The Green Girl

by Jack Williamson

Love transcends. This doesn’t hold truer than in this pulp classic by Jack Williamson.
Melvin Dane has been seeing a vision of a green girl since he was a child. Images of her came over the ether. Is she just fantasy? Or a reality that managed to cross time and space? And now, with the Earth under threat of extinction, will Melvin ever meet that girl of his dreams?

With an alien force trying to bring Earth back to the Ice Age, Melvin and his foster father, scientist Sam Walden, embarked on a heroic quest to save their world. Their adventures took them from their sleepy little cottage in the beaches of Florida to the unexplored and totally unexpected world beneath the ocean. There, Sam and Melvin find what they are looking for, and more. Sam meets the alien force trying to kill humanity, and Melvin meets the love of his life, the one girl he has been dreaming of since he was a child.

In their quest for redemption for the Earth they call home, both of them would find the love that would change their lives forever.
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The Dragon In The Sea

by Frank Herbert

In the endless war between East and West, oil has become the ultimate prize. Nuclear-powered subtugs brave enemy waters to tap into hidden oil reserves beneath the East’s continental shelf. But the last twenty missions have never returned. Have sleeper agents infiltrated the elite submarine service, or are the crews simply cracking under the pressure?

Psychologist John Ramsay has gone undercover aboard a Hell Diver subtug. His mission is to covertly observe the remainder of the four-man crew—and find the traitor among them. Sabotage and suspicion soon plague the mission, as Ramsay discovers that the stress of fighting a war a mile and a half under the ocean exposes every weakness in a man. Hunted relentlessly by the enemy, the four men find themselves isolated in a claustrophobic undersea prison, struggling for survival against the elements . . . and themselves.

A gripping novel by the legendary author of Dune.
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Oceanspace

by Allen Steele

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Aquarius Rising

by Brian Burt

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