Amazon.com Review\nAn Amazon Best Book of October 2022:Debut novelist Ray Nayler has written one of the most masterful science fiction novels to come along in some time. This near-future thriller takes place mostly on an archipelago off the coast of Vietnam, where a species of octopus appears to be developing culture. A multinational tech company has purchased and sealed off the islands for further study, and Dr. Ha Nguyen is there to research the creatures. There are others on the team, including Evrim, who is the first humanoid artificial intelligence to have been created, and indeed every character in this novel adds substantially to the story. I’ll be honest: I felt like this book broke my brain several times. It’s just so profound and well written. Ultimately, it’s a study of culture, language, consciousness, and the nature of intelligence, as well as a rumination on ambition and how we treat the world. It’s lyrical and thoughtful, and I'll immediately pick up the next Ray Nayler novel as soon as it’s available. —Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor\nHumankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.\nRumors begin to spread of a dangerous species of hyperintelligent octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them.\nThe transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where the octopuses were discovered, from the rest of world. Dr. Nguyen travels to the islands to join DIANIMA’s team: a battle-scarred security agent and the world’s first android.\nThe octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. The stakes are high: there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of the octopuses’ advancements, and as Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.\nBut no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it.\nA near-future thriller about the nature of consciousness, Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a dazzling literary debut and a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy.

The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Nayler, Ray

United States

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth. As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to take hold? Or will her own ghosts, and Moscow's real reason for bringing the mammoth back, doom them to a new extinction? A tense SF thriller from a new master of the genre.

The Tusks of Extinction

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Tordotcom

*WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE\n“The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of the most exciting new voices I’ve read in years.” 
―Blake Crouch, author of Upgrade and Dark Matter\nHumankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.\nThe transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. She travels to the islands to join DIANIMA’s team: a battle-scarred securityagent and the world’s first (and possibly last) android.\nThe octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.\nBut no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it.\nA near-future thriller, a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and an eco-logical call to arms, Ray Nayler’s dazzling literary debut The Mountain in the Sea is a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy.

Mountain in the Sea

Picador

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our January 2019 issue (#148) contains:* Original fiction by Jamie Wahls ("Eater of Worlds"), Natalia Theodoridou ("One's Burden, Again"), Ray Nayler ("Fire in the Bone"), Derek Kunsken ("The Ghosts of Ganymede"), and Lavie Tidhar ("Venus in Bloom").* Reprints by Marissa Lingen ("Left to Take the Lead") and Karl Bunker ("They Have All One Breath").* Non-fiction by Carrie Sessarego, an interview with Wesley Chu, an Another Word column by Kelly Robson, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 148 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarke, Neil

Tidhar, Lavie

Künsken, Derek

Bunker, Karl

Theodoridou, Natalia

Lingen, Marissa

Wahls, Jamie

Science Fiction

Wyrm Publishing

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.Our April 2021 issue (#175) contains:Original fiction by Ray Nayler ("Sarcophagus"), Endria Isa Richardson ("The Field Tiger"), Dean-Paul Stephens ("Ouroboros"), Richard Webb ("The Sheen of Her Carapace"), Chen Qian ("Catching the K Beast"), Andrea Kriz ("Communist Computer Rap God"), and L Chan ("A House Is Not A Home").Non-fiction includes an article by Andrew Liptake and interviews with Harry Turtledove and Bo-young Kim, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 175 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Kriz, Andrea

Richardson, Endria Isa

Stephens, Dean-Paul

Webb, Richard

Qian, Chen

Chan, L.

Fantasy

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our September 2021 issue (#180) contains:Original fiction by Ray Nayler ("Yesterday''s Wolf"), Ziggy Schutz ("It is a Pleasure to Receive You"), D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Xiaolongbao: Soup Dumplings"), Robert Jeschonek ("Dog and Pony Show"), Regina Kanyu Wang ("The Winter Garden"), Gregory Feeley ("In a Net I Seek to Hold the Wind"), and Timons Esaias ("Excerpts from the Text of an Explanatory Stele Erected for Our Edification by the Scholars of the Outer Orion Tendril").Non-fiction includes an article by Julie Novakova and interviews with Nina Allan and Cat Rambo, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 180 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Jeschonek, Robert

Spires, D.A. Xiaolin

Feeley, Gregory

Esaias, Timons

Wang, Regina Kanyu

Schutz, Ziggy

Clarkesworld Issue 186 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Kritzer, Naomi

Chand, Priya

Liu, Arthur

Mylonas, EA

Ester, R.T.

Moore, Tegan

Ritterhoff, Cal

Short Stories & Anthologies

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