Flood · Book 2

Ark

by Stephen Baxter

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
538
ISBN-13
9780575080591
Type
novel

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About this book

Ark answers that question directly a year later, in 2009, running 538 pages as humanity's remaining dry land runs out and the most audacious of the Ark survival projects -- an actual attempt to leave Earth -- becomes the only remaining option.

Its place in Flood

Ark is book 2 in the Flood series. It follows Flood. See the full Flood reading order.

A two-book near-future disaster duology built on a single, deliberately extreme premise: what if sea levels didn't just rise, but kept rising, without end. Flood (2008) opens as previously unknown reservoirs of water trapped deep in the Earth's crust begin releasing catastrophically, submerging coastlines and eventually Mount Everest itself over 36 relentless years (2016-2052), tracked through a small group of survivors as governments, corporations and ordinary people scramble to adapt to a shrinking, waterlogged…

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