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Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea Hardcover – 16 Jan. 2014

by Adam Roberts (Author), Mahendra Singh (Illustrator)

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It is 1958 and France's first nuclear submarine, Plongeur, leaves port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first time, one of the navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of sailors, engineers and scientists.

The Plongeur makes her first dive and goes down, and down and down... Out of control, the submarine plummets to a depth where the pressure will crush her hull, killing everyone on board, and beyond.

The pressure builds, the hull protests, the crew prepare for death, the boat reaches the bottom of the sea and finds...nothing.

Her final dive continues, the pressure begins to relent, but the depth gauge is useless. They have gone miles down. Hundreds of miles, thousands...

And so it goes on. And on board the crew succumb to madness, betrayal, religious mania and murder. Has the Plongeur left the limits of our world and gone elsewhere?

TWENTY TRILLION LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA contains 33 full page pen and ink illustrations by acclaimed artist Mahendra Singh, who previously illustrated an edition of THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK.

Mahendra Singh and Adam Roberts have revisited Jules Verne's classic SF novel, and together they have come up with a unique vision.

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Gollancz; Digital original edition (16 Jan. 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0575134429
ISBN-13: 978-0575134423
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 3 x 24.1 cm
Customer reviews: 17 customer ratings
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,279,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15894 in Science Fiction Adventure (Books)
- #45523 in Adventure Stories & Action
- #100204 in Fantasy (Books)

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"Wears a big grin...packed with sly jokes, puns and farcical moments. Blending the best of modern and older styles his prose is never less than an a delight. There's no one else writing material quite like this." 4.5 star review (Guy Hadley SFX)

A sinuously clever homage to the godfather of the scientific romance, enhanced by Mahendra Singh's lovely engraving-style illustrations. (James Lovegrove FINANCIAL TIMES)

He wryly riffs upon Verne's original prose, before slipping into his own accomplished contemporary style packed with humour, adventure and menace-providing the best of both underwater worlds. (Brody Rossiter Filminwords)

The very detailed and intense drawings help bring the prose to life...the words are a splendid, exciting voyage into the blue deep (Mark Watkins Blast 1386)

The science is meticulous, and the fiction articulate. Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea may have in the manner of smarts than heart, but I for one very much enjoyed the voyage (Niall Alexander Tor.com)

trippy, thought provoking science fiction with classic heritage...a whale of a tale indeed (Paul Holmes The Eloquent Page)

One of the few things you can be certain of when booking up a book by Adam Roberts is that it will be clever, quirky and a little strange. Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea doesn't disappoint in any of the regards. (Starburst Magazine)

an eye-popping and mind-blowing exploitative technique, and our author outdoes himself (Paul De Fliippo Locus)

Twenty Trillion League Under the Sea combines the authors serious novels with his parodies. The result is something that is not quite different and British in style but utterly compelling from beginning to end (SF Book)

A sinuously clever homage to the godfather of the scientific romance, enhanced by Mahendra Singh's lovely engraving-style illustrations. (James Lovegrove Financial Times)

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A sequel to Jules Verne's classic novel? Or something else entirely? A wonderful collaboration between Adam Roberts and illustrator Mahendra Singh.

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Masterly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2014

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You'll see some synopses of the set-up for this story, and you'll reckon you have a bearing on what's going on. That's fine - it makes the scientific acid trip all the more cosmic when it hits. This is no simple, nostalgic hommage to its illustrious predecessor, but an astonishing riff.

I've been reading a few by this author recently, and continue to be astounded by his range. What doesn't change is the breadth and depth of vision - characters dripping with personality, science of high quality, a dash of philosophy, action somehow rendered with pace while never neglecting the kind of high definition and quotidian details that make it all irresistibly real. I just don't understand how unconstrained his palette is - is he, in fact, a composite of several Adam Robertses, somehow swapping ideas across multiverses?

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confabulous

I'll have to read this one again.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2015

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I've been a serious S. F. junkie for over 35 year. There are few concepts I've not come across at some point. Nonetheless, some of this author's books have totally blown my mind. Most of the others are merely staggering.

Usually, though, those concepts and the plots surrounding them are presented clearly.

This one seems to dive into deeper waters.

"Twenty Trillion Leagues" is a gripping adventure. As the title suggests it is an homage to Jules Verne, but goes a lot further.

It has a number of strong characters, and a good deal of the story is character, rather than concept driven.

I cared about those characters, and the perils they found themselves in.

However, I'll have to read the book again - no hardship - to understand the ending Either Roberts is being dumb, or, much, much more likely, I am. I think he's done another one of those brain somersaults he's famous for, but I have missed a cue along the line.

Anyway, an enjoyable read - or two!

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Duchess of Duke Street

est Le Plongeur pour vous

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2017

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I enjoyed this read. Its not too taxing, but feels it like a book for adults. I liked the atmosphere, the cold war characters. its not a fast paced story of epic deeds, more a decent into chaos, madness and grizzly death. . The explanations when they are finally reached are satisfying. I hate to be critical of a book I enjoyed. Some people might think it could do with being edited, or that its too far fetched. If it was a film this might be true. Its a book, so get over it.

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Andrew Miller

Clever and original

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2014

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A very clever and original story. Whilst set on a nuclear submarine in the late 1950s it is written in the Jules Verne style complete with illustrations of various scenes (even in the kindle version). I

ts good in its own right. Its also good to have a sic-fi story which is not a) a dystopia, b) war with nasty aliens, c) poor orphan kid destined to save the the whole universe (yawn, yawn).

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Happy feet

Ho hum!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2014

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good enough as they say, excellent illustrations and well-written but oddly boring. Prefer his other books: 'Salt' is my favourite so far.

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Not the Adam Roberts I know.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2015

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Barely comprehensible and as a result a bit boring.I like high concept sci fi. I am happy with harder to understand books but in the end I also want a story. All of Adams others books have kept me entertained but I only read this one out of duty in the end

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GEORGIOU STAVROS

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2016

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a very beautiful book written from a master of literature to the edge between science fiction and weird fiction

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rosie123

bonkers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2014

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I am a fully committed fan of Adam Roberts so I expect to like everything he does. However, I have to say this is a very clever book. He imitates Jules Verne's writing style, characterisation and plot development with barely any deviation. The story itself is, of course - coming out of Mr. Robert's head, completely crackers so you really do have to suspend disbelief to the utmost.

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S. Sundaram

Got boring too soon! Bad writing!

Reviewed in the United States on 24 June 2017

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Good premise but bad writing, with lots of grammatical and word errors and bad metaphors. It takes a lot of talent and arrogance to take a classic well-constructed story and then make fun of it in a condescending manner. Jules Verne is turning over and died another death in this taking of his novel and abilities and subverting it to provide such an appallingly written piece of bad science fiction!

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Theresa

So far so good.

Reviewed in the United States on 8 March 2015

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So far, really good. I'm about 4 chapters in.

I had actually ordered this when I was drunk and I completely forgot about it until it arrived. I would recommend shopping like that. It's like Christmas, except I'm not crying from relief when it's over.

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digitalice

I start Robert's novels, but it may take me ...

Reviewed in the United States on 21 January 2015

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I start Robert's novels, but it may take me months to finish them. There is a current or theme of transcendence that runs through this novel that makes it more than a techno hard science adventure.

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Ojo

just terrible

Reviewed in the United States on 8 February 2015

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I applaud the interest in writing a science fiction novel with some actual philosophy behind it, but it is so poorly executed that it is almost unreadable. It ends abruptly, when the author has apparently run out of ideas ... or realized that the ideas he has been toying with do not, in fact, hold any water. I have thoroughly enjoyed Roberts' other work but this should be avoided at all cost.

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Paddy Kelly

Mind-bending sub-aquatic weirdness

Reviewed in the United States on 21 March 2014

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Adam Roberts is a big-ideas guy and this book keeps up that tradition. I won't give too much away, but think Jules Verne, submarines, science fiction and bizarre and twisted cosmology. Also a great adventure story with well-realized characters and one unexpected cameo. In a word - excellent. You will NOT be bored.

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