title: Final Passage: The ocean must give up its secret
author: Timothy Frost
description: Timothy Frost lives in Norfolk, England. He began writing as a student, but a career as an advertising copywriter intervened, and it was many years before he accomplished his lifelong ambition of writing a full-length thriller. Tim is a keen yachtsman, and sailed the Atlantic from the UK to St Lucia with his wife. His experiences on and around the ocean in the Caribbean provided much of the inspiration and background for his thrillers.
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  From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of _The Only Harmless
  Great Thing_ , who “shares literary DNA with Le Guin” (John Scalzi).
  
  
  After the world’s end, the last young human learns a final lesson from Earth’s
  remaining animals.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Pretend you are the land. Pretend you are a place far away, the last vibrant V
  of green and gold and tessellated rock before the sea and sky slither south
  unchecked for three thousand lonesome turns of a tern’s wing. Once upon a time
  the waters rose to cut you off from your mother continent, better independence
  through drowning. Some day soon, when the ice across the ocean turns to hungry
  waves, all the rest will follow, sliding beneath an oil-slick surface as warm
  and empty as a mortician’s handshake.
  
  
  But that does not concern us—yet. You are the land, and 