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The North Sea has become a vast, treacherous plain—and beneath an airship, wrecked submarines lie beside the bones of mammoths and prehistoric people. Professor J. Scott is aloft to study the new land; his naval captain has other things on his mind.

In 1923, after the sea-bed rises hundreds of feet, Scott joins a routine patrol over the mud flats that now stretch between Britain and Europe. He hopes to recover traces of ancient life, but the landscape is still too dangerous to cross, and the captain keeps pointing out a more recent history: wrecks, mines, and the war that changed everything. At a crater packed with fossils, Scott’s curiosity draws him toward the ground while the captain warns him back. What—and whose story—lies buried beneath the slime?

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