The Digging Leviathan
by James P. Blaylock

Description:
Southern California. Sunny days, blue skies, neighbors on flying bicycles ... ghostly submarines ... mermen off the Catalina coast ... and a vast underground sea stretching fromthe Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire -- where Chinese junks ply an illicit trade and enormous creatures from past ages still survive. It is a place of wonder ... and dark conspiracies. A place rife with adventure -- especially for teenagers Jim Hastings and his friend, Giles Peach -- who was born with a wonderful set of gills along his neck.

An insatiable reader, Giles draws inspiration from the novels of Edgar Rice Buroughs and is determined to build a Digging Leviathan. Will he reach the center of the earth? or destroy it in the process?