We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep

ΓÇ£A claustrophobic suspense novel of immense propulsive power.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöKim Stanley Robinson

A Canticle for Leibowitz meets The Hunt for Red October in We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep, a lyrical and page-turning coming-of-age exploration of duty, belief, and the post-apocalypse from breakout newcomer Andrew Kelly Stewart.

Remy is a Chorister, rescued from the surface world and raised to sing in a choir of young boys. Remy is part of a strange crew who control the Leviathan, an aging nuclear submarine, that bears a sacred mission: to trigger the Second Coming when the time is right.

But Remy has a secret tooΓÇösheΓÇÖs the submarineΓÇÖs only girl. Gifted with the missileΓÇÖs launch key by the LeviathanΓÇÖs dying caplain, she swears to keep it safe. Safety, however, is not the priority of the new caplain, who has his own ideas about the mission. When a surface-dweller is captured during a raid, RemyΓÇÖs faith becomes completely overturned. Now, her last judgement may transform the fate of everything.