THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Ray Nayler
2023 Nebula Award Nominee Reviews Part 2/6
Reviewed by: Abe Ziesing
An outstanding mashup of multiple SF subgenres including cyberpunk, dystopian near future, first contact, AI/robot/android and hard SF (not too hard), Ray Nayler's first novel is a science fiction juggernaut with marine biology sprinkled on top. I picked this up knowing nothing about the book or the author as part of my quest to read all Nebula Award nominees, and holy shit, am I glad that I did so! You're submersed (pun intended) into a very believable world of high tech...