Twenty Trillion Leagues UNDER THE SEA By Adam Roberts London: Gollancz, (2014). First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Adam Roberts' revisits Jules Verne's classic novel in a collaboration with illustrator Mahendra Singh. "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, are 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. Onboard the crew succumb to madness, betrayal, religious mania, and murder. Has the Plongeur left the limits of our world and gone elsewhere?"--Fantastic Fiction. A scarce SF novel in collectible a collectible hardcover first edition. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!