![]() There it was! The Long Beach apartment building was an older cousin to the ones that had sprouted like toadstools in Hawthorne. Instead of adobe-colored stucco and a Spanish-tile roof, it wore white stucco with blue shingles on top. He got going more slowly than he might have, but before the guy in the pickup behind him could honk. Yes, the address he was looking for should be in the next block of Ocean Boulevard. The light turned green. He checked the road atlas when he stopped at a red light. ![]() Jerry had the Thomas Brothers, open to the right page, on the front seat beside him. ![]() The USA is changing fast - and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. But it turns out that he’s the one person in the North Pacific who’s truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go.Īnd meanwhile, it’s still 1974 back on the mainland. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. Jerry’s a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. What’s down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. Joining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. Further, they’re offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret “Project Azorian” in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean - and they really don’t take “no” for an answer. It’s 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Specifically, we have chapter two - if you’d like to read chapter one before reading this excerpt, that is over on The Tor/Forge Blog. Here’s the synopsis: Today, we have an excerpt from Harry Turtledove‘s latest historical sci-fi mystery, Three Miles Down.
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