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Allen Steele - Oceanspace


Oceanspace
Allen Steele

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either
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OCEANSPACE An Ace Book / published by arrangement with the author
PRINTING HISTORY
Ace hardcover edition / February 2000 Ace mass-market edition / May 2001
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Copyright © 2000 by Allen M. Steele. Cover art by Danilo Ducak.
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For Sir Arthur C. Clarke


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Off the Atlantic coast of the United States, just past the edge of the continental shelf, rests a broad sub-
marine terrace known as the Blake Plateau. Located ap-proximately 2,500 feet below sea level, the
plateau stretches from Cape Hatteras to the Bahamas, and ex-tends nearly one hundred miles out into

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