{"product_id":"three-miles-down-9781250829733","title":"Three Miles Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret \"Project Azorian\" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean--and they really don't take \"no\" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the \u003ci\u003eGlomar Explorer\u003c\/i\u003e, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast--and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? \u003ci\u003eThree Miles Down\u003c\/i\u003e is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11984784\"\u003eHarry Turtledove\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.44w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250829733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250829739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC040000\"\u003eAlternative History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC028090\"\u003eScience Fiction | Alien Contact\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHARRY TURTLEDOVE (he\/him) lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, the novelist Laura Frankos. He is a winner of science fiction's Hugo Award, for the novella \u003ci\u003eDown in the Bottomlands\u003c\/i\u003e; and of the Sidewise Award for alternate history, for the novels \u003ci\u003eHow Few Remain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRuled Britannia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44484723572973,"sku":"9781250829733","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_975f8ea2-12f8-44b0-94f2-e227da131cf2.jpg?v=1700791639","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/three-miles-down-9781250829733","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}