![]() ![]() Hewitt and the students then find themselves fighting off a commando raid at sea by Land Institute seniors who attempt to kidnap Ana the abduction is foiled with the aid of a friendly bottlenose dolphin Ana named Socrates, who knocks her would-be abductor, Caleb South, out of the water. He directs one of the boys, Gemini Twain, to act as Ana's bodyguard. Hewitt, after launching drones to survey the wreckage, orders the freshmen back onto the bus, then onto the Varuna and out to sea, telling them that this is the work of a rival school, Land Institute, and that it is better for their own safety if the world believes them dead as well. However, shortly after leaving the campus, Ana and her classmates see torpedoes fired from a submarine at the base of the bluff on which their school sits, collapsing the buildings into the ocean. Theodosius Hewett, their elderly Theoretical Marine Science teacher. Ana and the 19 other ninth-graders at Harding-Pencroft then head to the docks at the nearby fictional city of San Alejandro for their end-of-year trials on board the school yacht the Varuna (named for Varuna, the Hindu god of the sea), which will determine their future at the school. The book opens on a Friday morning just before the end of Ana's freshman year, when she goes for a swim near campus with her older brother Dev, a 17-year-old senior, who gives her their mother's pearl necklace as an early present for her fifteenth birthday. Plot Īna Dakkar, the novel's protagonist and narrator, who turns 15 during the novel, is a student at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a fictional five-year boarding high school for marine sciences, situated on a remote bluff on the southern California coast. The book was inspired by Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas. She learns that at the end of her freshman year, her class will be taken on a top secret weekend trial at sea. The book follows Ana Dakkar, who is a student at Harding-Pencroft Academy. For example, Nemo's Nautilus – now under the control of his descendants – is described as having artificial intelligence and being capable of travel via supercavitation. The book incorporates the tropes of sibling rivalry and the recovery of lost ancient technologies. It combines both old and future technologies, melding together elements of both steampunk and artificial intelligence. This is a derivative work, featuring machinery, tools and settings described in Verne's books, and characters who are descendants of Verne's characters. Unlike Riordan's earlier books which dealt with mythology, Daughter of the Deep is a Retrofuturism science fiction novel set in a contemporary timeline of the world of Jules Verne's books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island. The book is a New York Times best seller. The book was published on October 26, 2021, by Disney-Hyperion. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĭaughter of the Deep is a middle grade fantasy- adventure novel by Rick Riordan. Fantasy, science fiction, young-adult novel
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