The Mountain in the Sea, A Five Minute Review

What if the lowly octopus were actually evolving into the Earth's next sapient species? That's the premise of Ray Naylor's 2022 cyberpunk novel, "The Mountain in the Sea." Is this book actually about evolution, the environment, or the human condition?
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