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If you are a hard SciFi aficionado like me, you will need to suspend your critical disbelief for the entire story. If you do, you will experience another remarkable tale by author Justin Alcala. When you hear the word fairy, I suspect you envision so ...more | |
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Amazon: Right from the start, let me say that this is a terrific book! I cannot tell if this is author Sutherland’s first book, but from my research, it appears to be. If so, then this is even more extraordinary. There were no, let me repeat that, th ...more | |
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I never fail to be surprised by the mistakes I find in first novels. Published novels in the hundreds of thousands supply any new novelist with nearly limitless examples of how to do it. Countless online sites offer advice on writing, formatting, sty ...more | |
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“In many ways fast cruise is tougher than being out to sea. When you're out, you just do your job, and take in stride what comes along. During fast cruise you deliberately push everything to the limit. If it's going to break, better alongside the pier than 2,000 miles away from nowhere, or on the bottom in the Soviets' back yard.”
― Operation Ivy Bells
― Operation Ivy Bells
“What also happened, however, was that another DSRV-equipped submarine put to sea occasionally, except that this DSRV really was a saturation diving chamber designed to look like a DSRV. The job of these guys was no more and no less than to retrieve pieces of Soviet missile warheads from the ocean bottom at the splash zone of their test site in the Sea of Okhotsk, and to tap into the Soviet underwater communications cables snaking along the bottom through that area.”
― Operation Ivy Bells
― Operation Ivy Bells

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