Stories of underwater exploration date back to at least the early 1600s.
Most have focused on the discovery of submerged cities or the lost continent of Atlantis. The advent of submarine warfare in World War I inspired realistic tales of beneath-the-seas adventure, and World War II inspired many motion pictures that portrayed daring Americans sneaking into German and Japanese-held waters to wreak havoc on the enemy. Herbert borrows from the underwater melodramas of World War II and from fantasies of futuristic underwater explorations.....
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