Vostok (MEG) - Softcover

Alten, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765388022 ISBN 13: 9780765388025

Publisher: Tor Books, 2016

Synopsis

In this sequel to The Loch and prequel to MEG: Nightstalkers, New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten offers readers a crossover novel that combines characters from two of his most popular series--including the basis for the feature film, The Meg, starring Jason Statham.

East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than fifteen million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct--and an object of immense power responsible for the evolution of modern man.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Alten is the best-selling author of the Domain Trilogy (Domain, Resurrection, Phobos) and the Meg series, (including Meg: Hell’s Aquarium and MEG: Nightstalkers). A native of Philadelphia, he earned a Bachelor’s degree from Penn State, a Masters from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate from Temple University. He is the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a free nationwide teen reading program used in thousands of secondary school classrooms across the country to excite reluctant readers.

Review:

''With the storytelling sensibilities of Crichton and Cussler, Alten sure knows how to write a thriller.'' --Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author

''Alten combines meticulous research with riveting storytelling to craft a new genre -- the historical science fiction thriller.'' --Washington Daily News, praise for the author

''Vostok's greatest moments describe beautifully alien worlds filled with sea creatures that might have evolved had natural history followed a different course.'' --Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0765388022
• ISBN 13: 9780765388025
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 480