Wakulla Springs: A Tor.Com Original

Andy Duncan · Ellen Klages

Oct 2013 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella

Wakulla Springs, in the deep jungle of the Florida panhandle, is the deepest submerged freshwater cave system in the world. In its unfathomable depths, a variety of curious creatures have left a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end. And that's just the local human beings over the last seventy-five years. Then there are the prehistoric creatures...and, just maybe, something else.

Ranging from the late 1930s to the present day, "Wakulla Springs" is a tour de force of the human, the strange, and the miraculous.

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Ratings and reviews

Not enough of the fantastical to merit an actual sf/f story for me, but the image of the springs is memorable and the lives of those portrayed in it kept me reading. I kept going on expecting to run into some time travel or portal to another world at the bottom of the springs though... xD

A plot that spands time but not place and a cast of characteristic characters, all based in a well developed setting that'll take your breath away.

It passed the time and was sometimes actually kinda cute, as opposed to it's usual labored cutesy. I appreciate that it was free, and sincerely hope the authors continue to write and improve.

About the author

Andy Duncan is an American science fiction and fantasy writer born on September 21, 1964, in Batesburg, South Carolina. His first story collection, Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000), won the World Fantasy Award; in the same year he won another World Fantasy Award for his novelette "The Pottawatomie Giant." His 2001 novella "The Chief Designer" won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction.

Ellen Klages is an American science fiction, fantasy, and historical-fiction writer born in Columbus, Ohio in 1954. She began publishing short fantasy and SF stories in 1998; her novelette "Basement Magic" (2003) won a Nebula Award. In 2006 she published her first novel, The Green Glass Sea, a middle-grade novel set in Los Alamos during World War II; it won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Portable Childhoods, a collection of her short fiction, appeared in 2007.