Flood · Book 1
Flood
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780575080584
- Type
- novel
About this book
Stephen Baxter opened his near-future disaster duology in 2008 with Flood, a 496-page novel imagining reservoirs of water trapped deep in the Earth's crust releasing catastrophically and submerging coastlines -- eventually Mount Everest itself -- over 36 relentless years, ending on the unresolved question of what 'Ark Two' actually is.
Its place in Flood
Flood is book 1 in the Flood series. It is followed by Ark. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575080584
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451462718