Breakwater
Novelette 15,242 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources
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.
Content warnings 3
deathsexual-contentviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.