Author Games: As Above, So Below
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Last published Sat, Nov 11, 2017
A devastating hurricane has all but wiped Senegal off the map. With debris washing up all the way from Cape Verde, one random, strange object goes nearly unnoticed; but renowned paleontologist Dr. Ackerman noticed, and has called in every favor and made promises to lecture at every university to scrape together enough funding and volunteers to launch the ultimate expedition: a lost civilization in the Atlantic ocean that was inexplicably advanced for its time.
[Cover photo is "Into the Blue Hole," (c) Jenny Huang]
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