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Driving the Deep is a successful sequel to Suzanne Palmer’s Finder, offering a similar adventure, where the protagonist meets strange people and visits memorable places, full of all kinds of danger. The standout here is the setting, an underwater facility that is both isolated and heavily guarded.
After saving a space station and surviving meeting with a race of inscrutable aliens in Finder, Fergus Ferguson finds himself with a much more difficult task to perform at the beginning of Driving the Deep: dealing with past mistakes and apologizing to his cousin. Ferguson is a fearless man when it comes to shootouts and fighting thugs in space, but when it’s time to face his family, [...]
Written by Suzanne Palmer, Finder is a perfectly fine sci-fi novel that offers an overfamiliar, but, for the most part, well-told story about a cocky smuggler caught in a war when trying to steal a spaceship.
The protagonist, Fergus Ferguson, is actually not called a smuggler, but a finder: a person whose job is to locate certain objects and retrieve them for whoever is paying him. He’s a hulky red-haired man and the type of person who is usually in the wrong place at the wrong time. So, when Ferguson travels to a space colony to steal a ship from a warlord named Gilger, he inadvertently gets inside a cable car with an old woman called Mattie Vahn, who just happens to be on [...]