Deep Current

ONYX Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Written by Benjamin E. Miller

Copyright © 2004

In Deep Current, an iceberg larger than the size of Manhattan is self-driven toward Hawaii and a group of scientists and Marines are sent to stop the "Floe." However, there is more to the iceberg's engine than it seems.

While granted, the "Floe" is twice as large as a real floe, "Floe" sounds better as moving ice than an ice field. The "Floe" on the ground appeared to be quite large - and when you consider that only one-ninth of an iceberg is under water, the "Floe" is quite large.

As the Marines and scientists get picked off on the floe one by one, it was a little annoying for me that one of the scientists keeps insisting that the aliens are the ones that are doing all of this. The deaths get rather graphic as the creatures pick off their victims. The greedy scientist trying to procure specimens for his company is such a typical crazy villain that I either wanted him to succeed in killing off the rest of the survivors or get killed himself. The fact that the baby girl survives all that has happened to her with only a cold seems so unrealistic to me, as such a defenseless little one would no way survive all the rigorous events, despite a doting big brother watching over her and protecting her. As a result, I was pulling for both the Marines, as well as for the creatures in this book - although the surviving Marine was so injured, she should not have been functioning at all by the climax.

Pancho

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