Sea siege

By Andre Norton

Book Overview

The deadly war was over, but the seas of the world were infested with a terror that had only just begun. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006AV1LQ
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Monsters in the Sea

Sea Siege (1957) is a standalone SF novel. Twenty-five years after the end of World War II, the threat of war is coming to a peak. East and West have been fighting a covert war for decades, with occasional flare ups into hot war. Now the red plague is killing fish throughout the globe and something strange is happening in the ocean depths. In this novel, Griff Gunston is very upset with his father's lack of attention and casual distrust. Since his mother died, Griff has lived with his aunt while his father worked on projects in the East Indies. Recently, his father returned and took Griff to live with him on San Isadore in the West Indies. Dr. Gunston is investigating the changes in the seas under in a joint American-British project. Griff would rather be studying at the Air Force Academy, but his father lacks time to listen to his dreams. Griff is frustrated, but diverts himself by working with the islanders. Angus Murdock is the captain of the Island Queen, an interisland sloop that carries equipment and supplies between San Isadore and Santa Maria on a regular basis. Chris Waite is mate of the sloop and Rob Fletcher is the crewman. These three islanders have adopted Griff as an unofficial crewmate. Griff is discussing the war news with Chris and Rob when Captain Murdock rows to the ship. He brings the latest information about the St. John -- another small interisland ship -- which had been found drifting without crew. Then Mosely Peeks, a conch fisherman, brings word of a dupee grounded on the island. Captain Murdock and Griff discover the dupee buried under sea birds and surrounded by crabs. They are amazed at the sight, for the large sea creature looks like a storybook dragon. Dr. Gunston, and his assistant Frank Hughes, recover the remains and take them back to their lab. In this story, the US Navy starts constructing a secret facility on the northern part of the island. Their territory is off-limits to all outsiders, which leads to a confrontation between the Navy and the Gunston project. Command Breck Murray works out a way to show his security officer that Project 914-5 is no threat to their work on Base Hush-Hush. Their demonstration of the innocuous activities of the project is interrupted by an urgent call from the base. One of their divers has disappeared in island waters. Dr. Gunston and Lieutenant (JG) Casey go into the waters of a small cove. As they are looking for the Navy diver, an ocean swell sweeps Dr. Gunston into a cave, then fouls and breaks his lifeline. Frank Hughes goes after his boss, but Griff remembers something shown to him by Dobrey Le Marr, the local Papa-loi. The island surface is strewn with deep wells connected to the sea. The Navy men know of one such to the west of the cove that could be connected to the sea cave. Griff dives into the well and recovers his father, but something has lashed his father with poison. This story was written at a time of great tension between East and W

Sea Siege

This is an absolutely wonderful book. Exciting at all times. I have reread this book many times. And will read it again.

Sea siege -andre norton's sensational Creation

Mankinds ultimate nightmare has become a reality. The wonderful simple life on the island of San Isadore -until the american seabees arrive,and with the secret project they construct.boats start to disappear and a strange creature appears on the shore. now there is concern to everyone a impending threat of nuclear war.! there is nowhere man can hide and what is doom headed our way