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Original Title:	Down to a Sunless Sea
ISBN:	1416567666 (ISBN13: 9781416567660)

Down to a Sunless Sea

David Graham

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 774 Users | 87 Reviews

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Title	:	Down to a Sunless Sea
Author	:	David Graham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	June 22nd 2007 by Simon Schuster (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Fiction. Dystopia

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I read this book when the Cold War was reaching its icy zenith, amidst new headlines about the Polish unrest of the eighties.

Leonid Brezhnev’s steely glare was not to be dulled by Ronald Reagan’s unremitting resolve, while a Polish Pontiff attempted to mitigate the mess, and Lech Walensa refused to budge.

It had all started for me MUCH earlier...

Back around 1961, you see, Ed Sullivan had internationally aired graphic line-drawn images of Japanese civilians at ground zero of Hiroshima in 1945, on his wildly popular variety show.

To this day I don’t know how he could have been so irresponsible.

Kids my age all over the world watched the horrific pictures fill the TV screen.

Nightmares? You betcha! 9 to 12 year old kids everywhere had ‘em.

And all that summer, whenever a Canadian Argus military transport lumbered slowly across the sky, I watched warily to see if it was gonna unload the Big One on us...

Sure I was dumb. Aren’t most kids that age?

But somehow I know that social planners followed Freud’s lead in recognizing the value of fear in societal conditioning.

One recent domino event in the present can backtrack smack dab into larger, earlier dominoes from the past (traumatic events in our minds) quite easily...

Well, THAT’s my own Big Bang theory, anyway.

But by the mid-eighties, as the contemporaneous flick LA Cop had it, the heat was on.

So when I hoped against hope by reading this vapid thriller, it’s for sure that like Dr. Strangelove, I was trying to stop worrying and LOVE the bomb.

Except it didn’t work. And couldn’t.

You can’t love something which scares you to death.

And when I got to the inexorable end, I was a bit disgusted with myself for even starting it.

Cause - quite simply - there‘s Nothing good that can come from a story (or a weapon) that ends by killing off everyone and everything you have ever LOVED.

And Nothing whatever that’s innately, humanly valid in that foul widespread depredation through stark, unnerving Fear of that most basic, cherished human quality of Love that took place in the Cold War.

And that blatant depredation continues, unchecked, Today.

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Ratings: 3.91 From 774 Users | 87 Reviews

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I read this book when the Cold War was reaching its icy zenith, amidst new headlines about the Polish unrest of the eighties. Leonid Brezhnevs steely glare was not to be dulled by Ronald Reagans unremitting resolve, while a Polish Pontiff attempted to mitigate the mess, and Lech Walensa refused to budge.It had all started for me MUCH earlier...Back around 1961, you see, Ed Sullivan had internationally aired graphic line-drawn images of Japanese civilians at ground zero of Hiroshima in 1945, on

my all time favourite book, read it about 4 times now



read this years ago. lost the book. would love to have it again, but is out of print. still looking though!

The start of the story focuses on a world where the US is in real financial trouble due to depleted oil reserves. There is a lack of jobs, food and basic provisions and everyone is struggling to survive or leave the country. The central hero of the book is a passenger jet pilot who is in the process of transporting refugees to the UK, which is more-or-less living under normal conditions due to more careful management of their oil supplies. The first third of the book details the bad conditions

There's something almost comforting about reading a book about the end of the world that occurs in the 1980's. It's almost like we've collectively dodged a bullet....The Big One.DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA is a straightforward Action/Adventure tale of a nuclear apocalypse, and relates the adventures of the brave band of men and women who beat the odds and live to fight another day. The author's background is in aeronautics, and most of the action happens in the cockpit of a large airliner. The writing

I enjoyed enough aspects of this book to remain thoroughly engaged. The plot twists were great. The whole premise was entertaining and nicely laid out. However!! The characters themselves detracted horribly from the events that unfolded. Much of the dialogue was dreadful. Physical descriptions beyond stock 40's/50's pulp were nonexistent. The fact that this was written in 1981 was hilarious...throughout I had to remind myself of that fact because it read as a book from the 50's. This feature