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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2017 by Seanan McGuire
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Cover design by Lauren Panepinto
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Grant, Mira, author.
Title: Into the drowning deep / Mira Grant.
Description: First edition. | New York : Orbit, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017020686| ISBN 9780316379403 (hardback) | ISBN 9780316379373 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781478923466 (audiobook downloadable) | ISBN 9780316379380 (ebook open)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary. | FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology. | FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure. | FICTION / Horror. | GSAFD: Adventure fiction. | Science fiction. | Sea stories.
Classification: LCC PS3607. R36395 I56 2017 | DDC 813/. 6—dc23
ISBNs: 978-0-316-37940-3 (hardcover), 978-0-316-37938-0 (ebook)
E3-20170919-JV-PC
Contents
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
AUTHOR’S NOTE
SURFACE
ZONE ONE: PELAGIC
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
ZONE TWO: PHOTIC
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
ZONE THREE: APHOTIC
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
ZONE FOUR: BATHYPELAGIC
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
ZONE FIVE: ABYSSOPELAGIC
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
ZONE SIX: DEMERSAL
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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