Philip Jos Farmer's Up from the Bottomless Pit , originally written in the late 1970s with the working title The Dragon's Breath , is a near-mainstream novel about the ultimate ecological nightmare.
Set in an alternate/near future 1970s, Up from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oil that it has thrown caution to the wind.
Using an experimental deep-water laser drill of.