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In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield

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The novel opens with its protagonist, Whistle, coming to realise his runtish position in his underwater tribe. He is small and weak and his tail is curiously bifurcated. Before long he is abandoned by his mother and forced up, out of the sea and into a new, terrifying world. It is an alien ...

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Torque Control — ... Kaveney reviews Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald, in The Independent; see also Holly Phillips’ review at Fantasy Magazine Dan Hartland reviews Far North by Marcel Theroux, at Strange Horizons Richard Larson and Karen Burnham review UFO In Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo, at Strange Horizons Duncan Lawie reviews The Accord by Keith Brooke, at Strange Horizons Martin Lewis reviews In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield, at SF Site Hugh Lupton reviews ...

Benighted by Kit Whitfield
Asking the Wrong Questions — ... people whose opinion I value. Since it's not out in paperback yet, I picked up a copy of her first and also very well received novel ...

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Torque Control — ... a Definition of Science Fiction“ Matthew Davis on “The Adventures of Little Martin in Tomorrowland“, or, Martin Amis’ sf criticism Graham Sleight’s novels of the year (halftime report). Of the books he’s read, I agree about Marcher and Journey Into Space; as previously explored, I’m less convinced by The City & The City. Of the books he hasn’t read I can echo the praise for Kit Whitfield’s In Great Waters, and am going to ...

In Great Waters
Torque Control — ... This is, as Martin Lewis has pointed out, part of what Kit Whitfield gets up to in her very fine second novel, In Great Waters, with the additional complications that we follow both of the main characters growing up, that neither of them are ordinarily human, and that both are children of two worlds. They are hybrids, with blood from both the people of the land and the people of the sea in their veins; although beyond this similarity they mirror each other. Henry is born as Whistle, under the sea, his “bifurcated tail” marking him out as a freak, and ...