Book description
Southern California - sunny days, blue skies, neighbours on flying
bicycles ... ghostly submarines ... mermen off the Catalina coast ...
and a vast underground sea stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the
Inland Empire where Chinese junks ply an illicit trade and enormous
creatures from ages past still survive. It is a place of wonder ... and
dark conspiracies. A place rife with adventure - if one knows where to
look for it. Two such seekers are the teenagers Jim Hastings and his
friend, Giles Peach. Giles was born with a wonderful set of gills along
his neck and insatiable appetite for reading. Drawing inspiration from
the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Giles is determined to build a
Digging Leviathan. Will he reach the center of the earth? or destroy it
in the process? James P. Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California,
in 1950, and attended California State University, where he received an
MA. He was befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his
contemporaries K. W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded - along with
Powers and Jeter - as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk
movement. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award,
he is currently director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the
Orange County High School of the Arts, where Tim Powers is Writer in
Residence.
