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Down to a Sunless Sea

David Graham

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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

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

I learned three things from this book:Air stops circulating at the equator. Past the equator, you have a whole different planetful of air!You can tilt the planet so that your new home in Antarctica will be sunny and grow good food, if you explode lots of nuclear weapons in the Northern hemisphere.How to fly a plane. yes, it's that detailed.

Despite a generous dollop of proper arse patting sexism this was a great read. A concurrently lucky and unlucky crew of an airborne passenger jet witness the end of the world and make subsequent attempts at survival. A relatively hard sci fi novel I found this to be a gripping read albeit in short bursts as there were often many pauses for thought / rationalising of calculations mentally. Technically detailed yet full of Human emotion. Fans of on the beach by Shute would enjoy this , in fact its

One of the very few books I have read more than once.

I read this book a long long long time ago, and then lost it. I have wanted to re-read this novel forever, but have never been able to find a copy. I think it is an excellent book and well written with a great story about a collapsing United States and an apocalyptic nuclear war. The whole story take place on board a Boeing 747 passenger plane carrying people, military and refugees from the United States to Great Britain. While en-route a nuclear war breaks out and the flight for survival

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