Driving the Deep

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By Suzanne Palmer

Publisher Description

From a Hugo Award-winning author comes the second book in this action-packed sci-fi caper, starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder.

As a professional finder, Fergus Ferguson is hired to locate missing objects and steal them back. But it is rarely so simple, especially after his latest job in Cernee. He’s been recovering from that experience in the company of friends, the Shipmakers of Pluto, experts at crafting top-of-the-line AI spaceships.

The Shipmakers have convinced Fergus to finally deal with unfinished business he's been avoiding for half his life: Earth. Fergus hasn’t been back to his homeworld since he was fifteen, when he stole his cousin’s motorcycle and ran away. It was his first theft, and nothing he's stolen since has been anywhere near so easy, or weighed so heavily on his conscience. Many years and many jobs later, Fergus reluctantly agrees that now is the time to return the motorcycle and face his family.

Unfortunately, someone has gotten to the motorcycle before him. And before he can figure out where it went and why the storage unit that held it is now filled with priceless, stolen art, the Shipyard is attacked. His friends are missing, presumably kidnapped.

Accompanied by an untrustworthy detective who suspects Fergus is the art thief and the sole friend who escaped the attack, Fergus must follow the tenuous clues to locate and save his friends. The trail leads them to Enceladus, where Fergus plans to go undercover to the research stations that lie beneath the moon’s thick ice sheet deep in a dark, oppressive ocean.

But all movement and personnel are watched, and the limited ways through the thick ice of the moon’s surface are dangerous and highly monitored. Even if Fergus can manage to find proof that his friends are there and alive, getting out again is going to be a lot more complicated than he bargained for.

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30 Reviews

4.0

Kpop Dedline

Created 7 days ago

Clever plotting

Created 3 months ago

“High stakes cozy sci-fi with damn loveable characters and cool af settings... Suzanne Palmer has done it again. I am onwards to book three!”

Dawn Marie

Created 5 months ago

“I very much enjoyed Suzanne Palmer’s Driving the Deep, the second volume of her excellent Finder Chronicles. Stories about a band of misfits, with a “if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck” leader, stuck in impossible (and sometimes comical) situations are especially appealing to me. Add in sci-fi elements, a sassy AI controlled space ship, and assorted aliens and I have high expectations. Fortunately, Ms. Palmer’s work did not disappoint. In this offering, we find Fergus Ferguson back in the Pluto Shipyards where his friends strongly encourage him to go back to earth to confront his past. And of course since Fergus (the aforementioned “finder”) being Fergus nothing goes as planned; the motorcycle he stole at 15 has been stolen from him, someone accuses him of being an art thief, and the ship yard is attacked and his friends are missing – and that is how Fergus finds himself deep under water on one of Saturn’s moon with an unwanted detective as a partner, surrounded by paranoid people, and a skittish cat. Even though this story takes place in space (well, more accurately deep under the water of ice covered Enceladus) at its core it is a mystery involving kidnapping and covert operations/experiments. As Fergus unravels the aspects of the case, we are introduced to various characters, all who are interesting – even the villain whose motivations make sense in the world Ms. Palmer has created. While it is easy to figure out what was happening (the clues are there if you look for them) before the “reveal” and the plot is not complex, this is still a very enjoyable read – due in no small part to the writing style, storytelling, world building, and character development of Ms. Palmer. For me, this novel is less about the mystery and more about the value of coming to terms with your past, making peace with it, and creating your own family/home. Finder Chronicles is listed as only having two volumes, I do home the author considers writing more as I enjoy the world she has created and want to read more about Fergus, his Shipmaker friends, and their adventures.”

Chris V

Created 6 months ago

Jean Hontz

Created 7 months ago

About Suzanne Palmer

Suzanne Palmer is an award-winning and acclaimed writer of science fiction. In 2018, she won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “The Secret Life of Bots”. Her short fiction has won readers’ awards for Asimov’s, Analog, and Interzone magazines, and has been included in the Locus Recommended Reading List. Her work has also been features in numerous anthologies, and she has twice been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and once for the Eugie M. Foster Memorial Award. Palmer has a Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where as a student she was president and head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. She currently lives in western Massachusetts and is a Linux and database system administrator at Smith College. You can find her online at zanzjan.net and on Twitter at @zanzjan.