Salomon Slackwater and the Aquanauts
Book Details
Author(s)Edward DeBerry
ISBN / ASIN1491089857
ISBN-139781491089859
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank698,865
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Dear America,
    In case I don't succeed, in case you wake up tomorrow morning and there is nothing where America used to be, I want to tell you all how sorry I am: I, your hero, have failed you. None of this is your fault. MY people are the ones who are responsible for everything that is happening here. They will never admit this, because they're just too darn proud, but I think that to blame you guys, the victims, for the tragedy that is befalling you, is an insult.
    There's another wine bottle floating by, a whole one, with a cork. I'm gonna put this message into it. Maybe many thousands of years from now, when America returns, someone will read my words and be inspired. Or maybe they won't have to read any of it, or, if they do, it'll just be a thrilling story to them; because, hopefully, I will succeed, and the country will be back right away, no many thousands of years to go by, no waiting... It'll just be like none of it ever happened.
    With all due respect,
    Salomon Nathaniel Slackwater
    There's another wine bottle floating by, a whole one, with a cork. I'm gonna put this message into it. Maybe many thousands of years from now, when America returns, someone will read my words and be inspired. Or maybe they won't have to read any of it, or, if they do, it'll just be a thrilling story to them; because, hopefully, I will succeed, and the country will be back right away, no many thousands of years to go by, no waiting... It'll just be like none of it ever happened.
    With all due respect,
    Salomon Nathaniel Slackwater
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Twelve thousand years ago, Atlantis, a legendary island of ingenious inventors, sank into the Ocean... Today, in America, the descendants of the survivors of that fateful day have only one chance to stop it from happening again. Can they save us all?
   Salomon Slackwater is a descendant of Atlantean immigrants. From his earlier years to his late teens, he tries to find his place in modern day Atlantean society, trying to live up to his people's high expectations to invent something spectacular. However, being of average intellect--at least in hisopinion--Salomon stumbles through his adolescence trying to be his own person. Along for the ride is his girlfriend, a normal American who he is determined to have a relationship with (against Atlantean norms) and his Muse (who he is destined to marry and who is supposed to inspire him throughout life).
   In a plot that twists and turns, Salomon faces Nazis, ecoterrorists, a supercomputer and a myriad of other obstacles as he tries to save America from sinking under the Ocean while coming to grips with his fate as one of the most important inventors of his time!
