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by Christopher Moore (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (6 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841496170
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841496177
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,836 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'I should warn you. I'm a newcomer to Moore - and I'm addicted! As with all good fantasy writers, he uses absurdity to make you focus on reality. . . he's streets beyond anyone else writing this genre at the moment.' THE BOOKBAG

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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. That is, until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: BITE ME. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else saw a thing- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (ne Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot- and his research facility is trashed- Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sci fi goes mad at its best, 2 April 2009
I read this book a while ago, and it still plays in my mind, which to me is a sign of a good book. Moore takes a topic you couldn't possibly believe and helps you suspend any version of reality you could have considered and lets you just enjoy the ride.

A very funny book.

And you'll never look at whales the same way again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "The science you do not know looks like magic.", 3 Jul 2008
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Christopher Moore's brand of humor, while always irreverent and sometimes off-color, also bursts through the constraints which might limit it to the real world. Moore has often explored other realities, and in this novel, we discover the underwater world of singing whales and the researchers who study them. Far more "straight" and less frivolous than in most of his earlier novels, Moore is clearly fascinated by cetacean biology and the research on which he focuses here.

Nate Quinn is a PhD. researcher who studies the subsonic songs of humpback whales and works the channel between Maui and Lanai, identifying and following individual whales, recording whale songs, and converting the songs into digitized computer programs in an effort to decode them. Three other researchers and numerous other wacky characters, allow the author plenty of room for hijinx at the same time that he is exploring serious issues.

When Moore shifts from science to science fiction, the line between reality and fantasy disappears. The reader willingly suspends all disbelief and succumbs to the spell of Moore's non-stop flights of imagination as he explores underwater life. His famous sense of the absurd, his irony, and his humor, some of it black, never flag, and his imagination, given free rein, soars in this wild fantasy of an underwater colony.

However playful it may be, this novel also marks a significant new direction for Moore. He is clearly fascinated by whales and the threats to their existence, and while the book is great fun and often very funny, it also has something serious and important at its heart--it is not frivolous entertainment. In an unprecedented move, Moore adds three separate Author's Notes at the end of the book, updating the reader on current whale research and acknowledging some of the world's great whale researchers. Readers will come away from this novel with broad smiles, a new appreciation for Moore's talents and his willingness to take risks, and, most significantly, new understandings of whales and the ecosystem in which they flourish. Mary Whipple
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fluke:Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, 31 Mar 2008
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This was my first encounter with Christhopher Moore and this shows it's good to take a chance on a new author every now and again. I was surprised by the stings and the laughs that shook you up and made you think of the effort that these people put in for these mammals and we are still killing them.This book was a good mix of satire and reality, sad but true the whales are still dead. Excellent exploration of something that isn't spoken of in polite conversation, this deserved the five stars.
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