Land's End - Hardcover

Pohl, Frederik; Williamson, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312930712 ISBN 13: 9780312930714

Publisher: Tor Books, 1988

Synopsis

As the destruction of the ozone layer by meteors forces humans underground, the love between Graciela Navarre and Ron Tregarth is threatened by separation and the menace of a mind-absorbing creature

About this title

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.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0312930712
• ISBN 13: 9780312930714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 369