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The two foundations announced Wednesday that poet Arthur Sze’s “The Glass Constellation,” Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s novel “Digging Stars” and Brad Fox’s nonfiction “The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths” have been cited as works that “deepen readers’ understanding of science and technology” and “highlight the diversity of voices” in modern science and technology writing.

While ““The Bathysphere Book” is the only winner you could officially classify as science, all three works draw upon science and the natural world.

Like Beebe in his bathysphere, Casey is captivated, and she ably describes the scene for so many of us who will never experience it: “Everything shimmered with a languid beauty, an uncanny gentleness, an amniotic calm.”

Nearly a century after the bathysphere's voyage, it's often said that we know more about deep space than about the depths of our own planet.

The first bathysphere made its initial descent off an island in Bermuda on June 6, 1930, lowered into the Atlantic Ocean by a shipboard winch.