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Flood
Book 1 of Flood/Ark
- 496 pages · about 8 hours
- First published 2008
- 7 editions
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1 About this book
Flood is a 2008 work of hard science fiction by English author Stephen Baxter. It describes a near future world where deep submarine seismic activity leads to seabed fragmentation, and the opening of deep subterranean reservoirs of water. Human civilisation is almost destroyed by the rising inundation, which covers Mount Everest in 2052. Baxter issued a sequel to this work, entitled Ark, in 2009.
Flood was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 2008.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: science fiction, the end of the world, and a long read.
- Climatic changes
- Science fiction
- End of the world
- Floods
- Sea level
2 About Stephen Baxter
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 More by Stephen Baxter
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