Blind Waves

By: Steven Gould

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

The author of Jumper returns with a near-future SF novel, set in an America whose coastline has been drowned by melting

Antarctic ice. In the world where hundreds of millions of people have been displaced from their homes by the Deluge - a hundred-foot-rise in sea level from melting ice caps - Partricia Beenan is lucky. She is still an American citizen with the right to live on the continent, unlike so many 'wetfoots' whose homes lie deep under the waves or the refugees from nations now completely under water.

But Patricia's father chose to live on a floating city of New Galveston, instead of following his congresswomen wife to Washington, and go into the underwater salvage business. Now, several years after his death, it's Patricia's business and her city. She's a wealthy woman, on the city council, well known to local INS commander and the New Galveston police.

But none of that will help Patricia when she stumbles across a recently sunken freighter that has dozens of bodies chained up in its hold and clear evidence that it has been fired upon by an INS ship.

Patricia's evidence of a rogue operation within the INS brings her together with Thomas Beckett, a government investigator assigned to the case. Romance blossoms while they pursue and are pursued by the killers, into the heart of the conspiracy.

©2000 Steven Gould (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

A new look at post change world.

If you could sum up Blind Waves in three words, what would they be?

Awesome story telling

What other book might you compare Blind Waves to and why?

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Both books took a sideways step to look at the world from a point of view not often considered.

Which scene was your favorite?

Spoiler! The submersible description and the depiction of life aboard ship.

Any additional comments?

The Audio of this book was good enough I went to get it in print!

Through the looking glass

It was an excellent performance by Renee Raudman, as always. Interesting story. Somewhat predictive and chilling.

If you thought immigration was bad before...

Living in Houston, it's surreal to listen to a possible future for our Bayou City to unfold in this way. Steven makes it feel like you're there living the story.

Good story and very enjoyable

I did enjoy the story, while not Steven Gould's best book it is still a very entertaining book and worth the listen. While the performance is very good, being from the South Texas coast the reader mispronounced several area names. "Copano" and "Palacios" specifically. This drove me a little crazy.

sappy but ok

at first the massive attention-to-detail kind of threw me off and had me daydreaming, and it was a slow start but about halfway into it it gets going and then it gets pretty good. It's a little sappy for my taste being a guy but it's your girls would like it.