A national bestseller
Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon.
Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “bite me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .
By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Moore at his outrageous best.
“Moore is endlessly inventive...This cetacean picaresque is no fluke—it is a sure winner.” —Publishers Weekly
“Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)…He writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville.” —The New York Times
“Wonderfully strange and fall-down funny as always, Moore delivers, with moxie and wit, a satisfying collage of science, magic, comedy, fantasy and Save-the-Whale propaganda. . . . Tempered with Seussian logic, the pure and innocent wonder of a child’s anything-is-possible imagination and the devilishly funny voice.” —San Diego Union-Tribune
“Moore's career has plainly been one of scaling new peaks; with [Fluke] he might just have outdone himself...If the ghost of Jules Verne had conspired with Rudy Rucker and Tom Robbins to produce a novel, Fluke might very well make them hang their heads in defeat...This novel is all ambergris, no blubber.” —Washington Post Book World
“A great time for the reader. A great idea, and a funny story… Go out and buy this book.” —USA Today
“An enchanting, audacious eco-fantasy . . . Jacques Cousteau by way of Douglas Adams, liberally spiced with dialogue that would make Elmore Leonard proud, and a whimsical sense of the absurd not seen since Tom Robbins’ early heyday.” —Toronto Globe and Mail