A review by mjfmjfmjf
A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias

4.0

Interest sf alien contact book. The aliens are pretty alien on the surface, unfortunately both sets of aliens are portrayed as fairly human. That said, doing alien aliens is hard and can be hard to read. The book seemed somewhat shallow but it got deeper as it went on and the pace picked up pretty well towards the end. Certainly this is the first set of aliens I've seen set in deep-water vents and their society was interestingly odd. The humans were a bit cardboard. 3.5 of 5.