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| Author | Steve Alten |
|---|---|
| Language | English scottish accent |
| Genre | Science fiction, Drama, Legal thriller mystery |
| Publisher | Tsunami Books |
Publication date | May 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | hardback & paperback |
| Pages | 496 |
| ISBN | 0-9761659-0-2 (Hardback) |
| OCLC | 58676841 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3551.L764 L63 2005 |
| Followed by | Vostok: Sequel to The Loch Meg: Nightstalkers |
The Loch is a science fiction novel and legal thriller by Steve Alten, and was first published in 2005. The novel is the story of marine biologist Zachary Wallace. A crossover sequel with Alten's Meg series, Vostok, was released in 2015, with a further crossover occurring in Meg: Nightstalkers in 2016.[1][2] A third book, The Loch: Heaven's Lake is currently unreleased.
- ^ Brehmer, Nat (24 June 2016). "Exclusive Interview: Steve Alten Talks Meg And More!". Wicked Horror. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
Nat Brehmer: Yeah, for sure. I'm also personally a big fan of The Loch and I was curious about what it was like to take something that was so infamous in pop culture and turn it into a serious work of aquatic horror? Steve Alten: Have you read Nightstalkers yet? Nat Brehmer: I have, yeah. Steve Alten: So you know that I meshed the two series together. Writing The Loch, I was originally suggested to do it by my former agent Ken Lashley, and I only wanted to do it if it wasn't going to be silly. I didn't want to do it if it was gonna be a pleisiosaur which doesn't make any sense at all. It had to be a creature that made sense scientifically and that would make for a great story. So I consulted a friend of mine who's a cryptozoologist and forensic artist Bill MacDonald and he's been to Loch Ness several times and he's the one who convinced me what the creature was. Once I had that down it was a matter of doing a lot of research, piecing together—I was very detailed about it. There are no good maps of Loch Ness. So I had to create a map based on things that were out there. I had a nine foot map taped to the wall in my office so I could track the creature's movements and the characters' movements so that they felt that they were there. Because I had never been to Loch Ness and I needed to understand what it was like. And the more research I did into it, the more I realized that this is really a cool story. There's a lot of history to this and there's also a lot of scientific method involved, that this creature could still be out there. They've sort of romanticized it in Scotland that it's this smiling, Disney-esque pleisiosaur. The reality is that it's a type of fish that's pretty menacing and has just grown very large for scientific reasons.
- ^ Eggen, Michele (24 June 2016). "Book Review – MEG: Nightstalkers by Steve Alten". Wicked Horror. Retrieved 24 June 2016.