After much back and forth (I might post a list of some of my other thoughts later), I finally reverted to the book that was on my mind when I was first considering author collaborations for discussion here...
I nominate
Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages.
Description from
GoodReads:
Quote:
Wakulla Springs, in the deep jungle of the Florida panhandle, is the deepest submerged freshwater cave system in the world. In its unfathomable depths, a variety of curious creatures have left a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end. And that's just the local human beings over the last seventy-five years. Then there are the prehistoric creatures...and, just maybe, something else.
Ranging from the late 1930s to the present day, "Wakulla Springs" is a tour de force of the human, the strange, and the miraculous.
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Don't be fooled by the publisher (Tor.com), this is not SciFi and it contains only vague hints of Fantasy, it is ... different. Maybe literary? (Not that that tells you much.) It's only short, a novella of 139 pages.
And don't be fooled by the blurb, which I think is quite misleading. This is a story of people, 3 generations of a family. The setting is both a character and part of the puzzle, a bit like the inclusion of Johnny Weissmuller in the story.
These are both authors whose short stories and novellas I have enjoyed, it was interesting to see how they came together in collaboration.
It never made it to a favourite status for me, I had a lot of trouble working out what I thought of it, but I did find it rather fascinating and think it would make an interesting book for discussion.
Example prices from Kobo:
USD $2.99,
CAD $2.99,
GBP £2.35,
AUD $4.05
It can also be read online, for free, on the Tor website,
here.