{"product_id":"nautilus-rising-9798284399736","title":"Nautilus Rising","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Philip Stengel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Steampunk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNautilus Rising\u003c\/b\u003e is a high pressure steampunk sci fi thriller that expands the legend of Captain Nemo into an alternate 1882 where steam and aether collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Sargasso gloom, rogue diver \u003cb\u003eElias Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e finds the wreck of the \u003ci\u003eNautilus\u003c\/i\u003e and a living core that hums like a trapped star. The discovery lights a flare across the Atlantic. The \u003cb\u003eBritannic League\u003c\/b\u003e wants control. The \u003cb\u003eIron Corsairs\u003c\/b\u003e want profit. Both are willing to kill for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter \u003cb\u003eClara Voss\u003c\/b\u003e, a disgraced League engineer with a knife bright mind and a fast sub called the \u003cb\u003eIron Wren\u003c\/b\u003e. Dragged into the race by bad debt and worse secrets, she teams with Elias and wakes a ship that is part brass, part biotech, and very possibly alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe core is not ours. It thinks, learns, and defends. One focused pulse unthreads a scout sub like tin. The \u003ci\u003eNautilus\u003c\/i\u003e moves with impossible grace, reshapes clamps to fit new docks, and opens grown hatches only when it judges intent. Every test looks less like machinery and more like choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chase drives into \u003cb\u003eAtlantis Verge\u003c\/b\u003e, a neutral city in a drowned crater where dock overseers, corsair captains, and a priestess who listens to old currents all demand a price. Nemo's recovered log warns of a network of seeds scattered across the deeps. Utopia was the dream. Judgment may be the outcome if the cores decide the surface has failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eRule first tech that makes sense, including aether cannons, pressure seals, neural interfaces, organic control thrones, gravimetric thrust\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eNautical siege and pursuit, with League destroyers, Corsair boardings, dockside standoffs, and trench runs in black water\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA living vessel as character, with self repairing biotech, empathic control, and defenses that act with intent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet pieces that hit, from the Sargasso reveal and precision defense burst to a white knuckle glide into Atlantis Verge and a grotto parley that turns into a reckoning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead if you like\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eJules Verne reimagined with modern stakes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteampunk that respects physics, pressure, and logistics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eNautical science fiction where cities, ships, and systems drive the plot as much as people\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt for clean escalation, \u003cb\u003eNautilus Rising\u003c\/b\u003e delivers short chapters, tight point of view, and cinematic payoffs. The sea has rules and the core has a vote. If you want brass and blood adventure with a ship that can love or judge, board \u003cb\u003eNautilus Rising\u003c\/b\u003e and hear the hum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779309289623,"sku":"9798284399736","price":1632.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798284399736.webp?v=1778035299","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/nautilus-rising-9798284399736","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}