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In Great Waters
Written by Kit Whitfield
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Average Score:
80(7)
During a time of great upheaval, the citizens of Venice make a pact that will change the world. The landsmen of the city broker a treaty with a water-dwelling tribe of deepsmen, cementing the alliance through marriage. The mingling of the two races produces a fresh, peerless strain of royal blood. To protect their shores, other nations make their own partnerships with this new breed–and then, jealous of their power, ban any further unions between the two peoples. Dalliance with a deepswoman becomes punishable by death. Any “bastard” child must be destroyed.
This is an Earth where the legends of the deep are true–where the people of the ocean are as real and as dangerous as the people of the land. This is the world of intrigue and betrayal that Kit Whitfield brings to life in an unforgettable alternate history: the tale of Anne, the youngest princess of a faltering England, struggling to survive in a troubled court, and Henry, a bastard abandoned on the shore to face his bewildering destiny, finding himself a pawn in a game he does not understand.
Yet even a pawn may checkmate a king.
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Book Details
Science Fiction
Paperback,
416 Pages
Published
by Del Rey on October 27, 2009
First Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in 2009
ISBN-10 0345491653
ISBN-13 978-0345491657
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Reviews
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SFRevu
| Benjamin Wald
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Review Rating: 100
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In Deep Waters is a powerful and masterfully written novel.
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The Zone
| Jonathan McCalmont
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Review Rating: 100
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Thematically complex, carefully written, psychologically insightful, and conceptually expansive, it is without the shadow of a doubt one of the finest works of genre fiction to emerge within the last few years.
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Locus Online
| Faren Miller
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Review Rating: 80
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...superb fantasy that substitutes merfolk for werewolves and employs both historic figures and her own variations on the mindsets of late-medieval England to great effect.
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SF Site
| Martin Lewis
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Review Rating: 80
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In Great Waters is a delight to read, an elegant and contained work. [...] Whitfield is the real deal, her prose is clear like a mountain lake; cool, beautiful, bracing, affording glimpses of great depths.
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sffworld.com
| Owen Jones
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Review Rating: 80
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With any number of reasons why this novel could have failed, many inherent to the type and style of story chosen, this is a highly crafted piece worthy of a far more experienced writer.
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Strange Horizons
| Kari Sperring
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Review Rating: 60
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It's an interesting book, a smoothly written and readable book that has kept me thinking long after I finished it. It's very likely that other readers will like it more than I did. I am, for my sins, a mediaeval historian, and problems with historical culture trip me.
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Strange Horizons
| T. S. Miller
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Review Rating: 60
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...even if you find its world difficult to swallow, In Great Waters confirms that Whitfield is a writer to keep watching.
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