Thread: The End of the World, but without zombies and such....
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Old 10-01-2013, 11:56 PM   #57
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Frank Schätzing: The Swarm.
The first one to die was a fisherman off the coast of Chile. An oil company discovers some weird worms on Norway's continental shelf. Canadian whale watchers observe orcas behaving oddly. Shark attacks. Weird boat accidents. Gradually, it escalates...

In between the action there's oodles of information on everything from crab physiology to ocean geology. Usually that annoys me, but Schätzing managed to keep it interesting. I find it hard to forgive him for what he did to my home town, though.
Reading that reminded me that when I mentioned John Wyndham novels earlier, I missed The Kraken Wakes. The Good reads description is:

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Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.
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