Land's End - Softcover

Pohl, Frederik; Williamson, Jack

3.3

168 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812500245 ISBN 13: 9780812500240

Publisher: Tor Books, 1989

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When Comet Sicara brushed near enough to strip the ozone layer form the Earth's atmosphere, civilization effectively ended--in fact, life on Earth was nearly extinguished. But the underwater cities survived, and some heavily protected land enclaves as well. When the "ozone summer" years were ending, submarine captain Ron Tregarth rediscovered his lost love, Graciela Navarro. but their triumph against all odds was only the beginning, for the alien known as the Eternal stood between them and threatened to destroy all they held dearest. The Eternal's goal was to absorb the minds of every living thing, to create a death-in-life to enslave the planet.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Two of SF's liveliest veterans here collaborate on a postholocaust novel that shoots off into unexpected channels. The authors portray idyllic undersea cities where ocean beds are farmed and giant squid are trained as intelligent helpmates, in contrast to the overpopulated landmasses, swayed by demagoguery. Catastrophe comes not from war, however, but from a comet whose debris burns off the atmosphere, creating a deadly "ozone summer." Survivors encounter the mixed blessing of new, alien-controlled leaders who feed and house them for their labor on the vast project of building a spaceship so that an alien life form, called the Eternallong dormant beneath the sea and activated by the comet explosioncan resume its interstellar journey. This is an odd, often dour novel that encompasses but doesn't quite meld its underwater utopia, comically petty tyrants and the doggedly optimistic "we will prevail" determination of its characters.
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From Library Journal:

A cosmic disaster destroys the surface of the earth and awakens a sleeping alien menace whose purpose is to assimilate all surviving life into itself. Two veteran sf authors combine their storytelling abilities to create a sprawling, complicated sf story with more ideas than the plot can handle. For large sf collections only. JC
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