The lift is always out of order.

Roberts catalogues the other man-made threats to life in the sea: the introduction of alien species by means of ballast water, such as the warty comb jellies that took over the Black Sea ….

Though not the temporal of clocks and watches, he has neither — he is acutely aware of skytime.

Yet there began to be insistent tuggings as if from a dream that could not be recalled.