Into the Drowning Deep

One of the first things the reader will notice is how the whole book seems to be a sendup of the ???mockumentaries??? shown on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. Though they caught flak from legitimate scientific institutions, such programs have netted both channels some of their highest viewership numbers in a long time. This novel asks the question: what if a production company set out to make a mockumentary and instead wound up finding the monsters after all? Aside from the potential horror fodder such a scenario can create (and does, in this novel), it also raises some interesting ethical questions about the entertainment industry and the idea of mockumentaries in general. Can the audience be trusted to be sufficiently critical of what they are seeing to know what is and is not real? And if they cannot, does the entertainment industry have the right to take advantage of that credulity for the sake of buzz and viewership numbers?

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