STAR SEED

"An evocative and powerful new writer" - George Scithers, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

"One of the wildest cliffhanger endings" - Science Fiction Review

"Each of Poyer's books is a treat." - Library Review

"Poyer knows what he is writing about when it comes to anything on, above, or below the water." - New York Times Book Review

Years after the mysterious Great Dying killed every animal that breathed the air, only ten people remain alive, trapped deep beneath the Caribbean. Three scientists, studying the dolphins also confined at the Navidad Bank Undersea Research Station; two college-age interns; and a strangely silent girl and boy, engineered to live permanently beneath the sea. Joined by the crew of USS Pilgrim, an experimental sub returned from a secret patrol, they've eked out a precarious existence so far. But suddenly a new threat arrives; a breed of deep-sea sharks that act cooperatively and display far more than normal intelligence. Commander Darrin "Dinker" Cross decides to trace both mysteries to their source. Who or what triggered the Dying, and continues to remold Earth's atmosphere, sea, and creatures? To find out, he accepts one final mission: a perilous voyage far to the south. . . .