Murray Leinster 3 hr 16 min read

A stranded American in Manila, winding up a failed business, stumbles onto a menace rising from the depths of the sea.

Murray Leinster's 1961 novel builds a first-contact thriller around Terry Holt and a mysterious deep-ocean threat off the Philippines. Solid, well-paced golden-age SF from the 'dean of science fiction.' Read it for a capable, atmospheric tale of creatures from the abyss and the men who must face them.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).