Seaweed Rising

Rob Magnuson Smith

Summary

Beneath the sea, over millennia, sentient beings await our final mistakes: soon they will make their move.
Seaweed Rising follows an amateur seaweed collector who is convinced that algae are taking over the human race. From a Cornish fishing village to the Spanish coast, up to the blinding glacial landscape of the Arctic, human society falls under the microscope in this genre-bending existential drama.

Available since: 08/03/2023.

Print length: 304 pages.

Contemporary Fiction

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