The Dead Sea (Ascender, #2) by Jeff Lemire

​Ok, guess I’m binging these then. All the authors’ fault. They just had to go and make these books irresistible.
The adventure continues. What’s interesting is that while the Descender series were firmly science fiction, the Ascender veers is all sorts of directions. Because so much of the world/worlds has been reduced to primitive-like, pre-technology conditions, there are strong elements of fantasy here. You got vampires (so many vampires), and werewhales (which is just awesome AND fun to say) and witches and magic and all that.
So there’s a sort of science meets magic and how do you distinguish the two. It’s fascinating to contemplate when science seems like magic and vice versa.
Certainly brings that famous quote to mind, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
Anyway, on to book three.