Series
Meg (Shark)
Steve Alten · 7 novels · 2 novellas · 1997–2022
Steve Alten's Meg novels follow paleontologist and submersible pilot Jonas Taylor after he inadvertently releases a prehistoric megalodon shark thought extinct from the ocean's deepest trench, beginning with Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. The series follows escalating confrontations with megalodons and other giant sea predators across seven further books.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Meg (Shark) at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s2
- 2000s2
- 2010s3
- 2020s2
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 56% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Megdarkest · calmest
- Generationsbrightest
- Primal Watersmost intense