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Five Speculative Stories Exploring Life Under the Sea

From oceanic research to supernatural sea creatures to eccentric geniuses
with fancy submarines...

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On 12/09/2026 02:21, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Speculative Stories Exploring Life Under the Sea

From oceanic research to supernatural sea creatures to eccentric geniuses with fancy submarines...

https://reactormag.com/five-speculative-stories-exploring-life-under-the-sea/

Also
The Mountain in the Sea. Ray Nayler. I read this in 2023 and have
forgotten most of it though I rated it Four Stars.
About intelligent octopi in a dystopic future where the environment is
severely damaged with seas almost fished out.

A Spy in Europa. Alastair Reynolds. Four Stars. Short story.
The moon, Europa is a fascinating setting, the action is tense and the
ending, a brilliant twist.
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Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:

On 12/09/2026 02:21, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Speculative Stories Exploring Life Under the Sea
From oceanic research to supernatural sea creatures to eccentric geniuses >>with fancy submarines... >>https://reactormag.com/five-speculative-stories-exploring-life-under-the-sea/ >Also

The Mountain in the Sea. Ray Nayler. I read this in 2023 and have
forgotten most of it though I rated it Four Stars.
About intelligent octopi in a dystopic future where the environment is >severely damaged with seas almost fished out.
A Spy in Europa. Alastair Reynolds. Four Stars. Short story.
The moon, Europa is a fascinating setting, the action is tense and the >ending, a brilliant twist.

Another story that fits under this subject is "Down and Out"
by Ken Wharton.

The short story (or an excerpt?) can be found in the World-Wide
Web on the Web site "compellingsciencefiction.com":

|Excerpted with Permission from: Science Fiction by Scientists:
|An Anthology of Short Stories, Edited by Michael Brotherton

.


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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:

On 12/09/2026 02:21, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Speculative Stories Exploring Life Under the Sea
From oceanic research to supernatural sea creatures to eccentric geniuses >>>with fancy submarines... >>>https://reactormag.com/five-speculative-stories-exploring-life-under-the-sea/

Also
The Mountain in the Sea. Ray Nayler. I read this in 2023 and have
forgotten most of it though I rated it Four Stars.
About intelligent octopi in a dystopic future where the environment is >>severely damaged with seas almost fished out.
A Spy in Europa. Alastair Reynolds. Four Stars. Short story.
The moon, Europa is a fascinating setting, the action is tense and the >>ending, a brilliant twist.

Another story that fits under this subject is "Down and Out"
by Ken Wharton.
The short story (or an excerpt?) can be found in the World-Wide
Web on the Web site "compellingsciencefiction.com":
|Excerpted with Permission from: Science Fiction by Scientists:
|An Anthology of Short Stories, Edited by Michael Brotherton
.

And then, there is "Surfacing" (1988) by Walter Jon Williams


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In article <surfacing-20260926151450@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:

On 12/09/2026 02:21, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Speculative Stories Exploring Life Under the Sea
From oceanic research to supernatural sea creatures to eccentric geniuses >>>>with fancy submarines... >>>>https://reactormag.com/five-speculative-stories-exploring-life-under-the-sea/

Also
The Mountain in the Sea. Ray Nayler. I read this in 2023 and have >>>forgotten most of it though I rated it Four Stars.
About intelligent octopi in a dystopic future where the environment is >>>severely damaged with seas almost fished out.
A Spy in Europa. Alastair Reynolds. Four Stars. Short story.
The moon, Europa is a fascinating setting, the action is tense and the >>>ending, a brilliant twist.

Another story that fits under this subject is "Down and Out"
by Ken Wharton.
The short story (or an excerpt?) can be found in the World-Wide
Web on the Web site "compellingsciencefiction.com":
|Excerpted with Permission from: Science Fiction by Scientists:
|An Anthology of Short Stories, Edited by Michael Brotherton
.

And then, there is "Surfacing" (1988) by Walter Jon Williams

There was Clement's _Ocean On Top_, _Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome_
and of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcVS2nUgfb4
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Stefan Ram wrote:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:

On 12/09/2026 02:21, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Speculative Stories Exploring Life Under the Sea
From oceanic research to supernatural sea creatures to eccentric geniuses >>>> with fancy submarines...
https://reactormag.com/five-speculative-stories-exploring-life-under-the-sea/

Also
The Mountain in the Sea. Ray Nayler. I read this in 2023 and have
forgotten most of it though I rated it Four Stars.
About intelligent octopi in a dystopic future where the environment is
severely damaged with seas almost fished out.
A Spy in Europa. Alastair Reynolds. Four Stars. Short story.
The moon, Europa is a fascinating setting, the action is tense and the
ending, a brilliant twist.

Another story that fits under this subject is "Down and Out"
by Ken Wharton.
The short story (or an excerpt?) can be found in the World-Wide
Web on the Web site "compellingsciencefiction.com":
|Excerpted with Permission from: Science Fiction by Scientists:
|An Anthology of Short Stories, Edited by Michael Brotherton
.

And then, there is "Surfacing" (1988) by Walter Jon Williams

Not to be confused with "Surfacing", by John Wyndham admirer Margaret
Atwood.

William Hyde

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On 9/26/2026 11:52 AM, William Hyde wrote:

Stefan Ram wrote:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:

On 12/09/2026 02:21, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Speculative Stories Exploring Life Under the Sea
From oceanic research to supernatural sea creatures to eccentric

geniuses

with fancy submarines...
https://reactormag.com/five-speculative-stories-exploring-life-
under-the-sea/

Also
The Mountain in the Sea. Ray Nayler. I read this in 2023 and have
forgotten most of it though I rated it Four Stars.
About intelligent octopi in a dystopic future where the environment is >>>> severely damaged with seas almost fished out.
A Spy in Europa. Alastair Reynolds. Four Stars. Short story.
The moon, Europa is a fascinating setting, the action is tense and the >>>> ending, a brilliant twist.

Another story that fits under this subject is "Down and Out"
by Ken Wharton.
The short story (or an excerpt?) can be found in the World-Wide
Web on the Web site "compellingsciencefiction.com":
|Excerpted with Permission from: Science Fiction by Scientists:
|An Anthology of Short Stories, Edited by Michael Brotherton
.

-a-a And then, there is "Surfacing" (1988) by Walter Jon Williams

Not to be confused with "Surfacing", by John Wyndham admirer Margaret Atwood.

David Drake wrote a book set on an ocean world Venus. Surface Action, 1990.
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