Hora v moři – Nayler Ray (2024)

Humanity discovers intelligent life in the form of a new species of octopus with its own language and culture. ***** The multinational technology corporation Dianima seals off the remote Con Dao archipelago, where an unknown and apparently highly intelligent species of octopus has appeared. Biologist Ha Nguyen, who has studied cephalopod behavior her entire life, eagerly seizes the opportunity to study them. She sets off to the archipelago and joins Dianima's team, composed of a seasoned security chief and the first (and possibly the last) android in the world. ***** The octopuses may hold the key to an unprecedented breakthrough in the development of non-human intelligence. While Dr. Nguyen attempts to establish contact with the newly discovered species, forces greater than Dianima are trying to seize the cephalopods for themselves. ***** However, no one has yet asked the octopuses themselves for their opinion. Nor what they have planned. ***** The stunning novel debut of Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea," is not only a thriller set in the near future and a meditation on the nature of consciousness but also an ecological call to arms and an astonishing dive into the treasures and wreckage of humanity's legacy.