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Breakwater

Novelette 15,242 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources

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Humanity is under attack from intelligent creatures we never knew about from the abyss of our own oceans. Cally is a researcher trying to communicate with them when the underwater facility she’s on is attacked and she has to escape before it disintegrates entirely.

First ContactPolitical ResistanceSlow Burn

More tags 12

TenseDarkMelancholicMemorySurvivalNear FutureContemporaryClose Third PersonGrief And LossBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

Content warnings 3

deathsexual-contentviolence

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