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Title: FLOOD
By: Stephen Baxter
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0575084820
ISBN 13: 9780575084827
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Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 9 July, 2009
Pages: 544
Description: From Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth books comes the ultimate disaster novel - the world is drowning and there is nowhere left on earth to go.
Synopsis: From Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth books comes the ultimate disaster novel - the world is drowning and there is nowhere left on earth to go.Next year. Sea levels begin to rise. The change is far more rapid than any climate change predictions; metres a year. Within two years London, only 15 metres above the sea, is drowned. New York follows, the Pope gives his last address from the Vatican, Mecca disappears beneath the waves.Where is all the water coming from? Scientists estimate that the earth was formed with seas 30 times in volume their current levels. Most of that water was burnt off by the sun but some was locked in the earth's mantle. For the tip of Everest to disappear beneath the waters would require the seas to triple their volume. That amount of water is still much less than 1% of the earth's volume. And somehow it is being released. The world is drowning. The biblical flood has returned.And the rate of increase is building all the time. Mankind is on the run, heading for high ground. Nuclear submarines prowl through clouds of corpses rising from drowned cities, populations are decimated and finally the dreadful truth is known. Before 50 years have passed there will be nowhere left to run.FLOOD tells the story of mankind's final years on earth. The stories of a small group of people caught up in the struggle to survive are woven into a tale of unimaginable global disaster. And the hope offered for a unlucky few by a second great ark ...
Publication: UK
Imprint: Gollancz
Prizes: Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel
Returns: Returnable
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ALTERNATE HISTORIES
ARC 1.1: THE FUTURE ALWAYS WINS (PB)
ARK (HB)
ARK (PB)
ARK (PB)
BEHEMOTH
BRONZE SUMMER (HB)
BRONZE SUMMER (PB)
CELEBRATION (HB)
CELEBRATION (PB)
COALESCENT (PB)
CONQUEROR (PB)
CONQUEROR (PB)
CREATION NODE
DOCTOR WHO: THE WHEEL IN SPACE (CD)
DOCTOR WHO: THE WHEEL OF ICE
DOCTOR WHO: THE WHEEL OF ICE (HB)
DOCTOR WHO: THE WHEEL OF ICE (PB)
EARLY MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN MEMORY OF PATRICK WORMALD (HB)
EARLY MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN MEMORY OF PATRICK WORMALD (PB)
ECLIPSE 2 (PB)
EMPEROR (PB)
ENGINEERING INFINITY (PB)
EVOLUTION (PB)
EXULTANT (PB)
FABLES FROM THE FOUNTAIN (HB)
FABLES FROM THE FOUNTAIN (PB)
FABLES FROM THE FOUNTAIN (PB)
FIRSTBORN (PB)
FLOOD (HB)
FLOOD (PB)
FLUX
GALAXIAS
GALAXIAS (HB)
GALAXIAS (PB)
GRAVITY DREAMS (HB)
GRAVITY DREAMS (HB)
GULLIVERZONE (AUD)
GULLIVERZONE (HB)
GULLIVERZONE (PB)
H-BOMB GIRL (HB)
H-BOMB GIRL (PB)
IRON WINTER (HB)
IRON WINTER (PB)
IRON WINTER (PB)
LAST AND FIRST CONTACTS (HB)
LIFE BEYOND US
LONG CHILDHOOD (PB)
LONG COSMOS (PB)
LONG COSMOS (PB)
LONG EARTH BOOK 2 (PB)
LONG MARS (PB)
LONG UTOPIA (PB)
MASSACRE OF MANKIND (PB)
MEDUSA CHRONICLES (HB)
MEDUSA CHRONICLES (PB)
MOONSEED
MOONSEED (PB)
MOONSEED (PB)
MOONSEED (PB)
MOONSEED (PB)
NAVIGATOR (HB)
NAVIGATOR (PB)
OBELISK (HB)
OBELISK (PB)
OBELISK (PB)
OMEGATROPIC (HB)
OMEGATROPIC (PB)
ORIGIN
ORIGIN (PB)
ORIGIN (PB)
PHASE SPACE
PHASE SPACE (PB)
PHASE SPACE (PB)
PROJECT CLIO (HB)
PROXIMA
PROXIMA (HB)
PROXIMA (PB)
PROXIMA (PB)
RAFT
RAFT (PB)
RAFT (PB)
RESPLENDENT (PB)
REVOLUTIONS IN THE EARTH (HB)
RIDING THE ROCK (HB)
RIDING THE ROCK (PB)
RING
ROLE OF THE I.T./I.S. MANAGER (PB)
SCI-FI CHRONICLES (HB)
SCIENCE OF AVATAR
SCIENCE OF AVATAR (PB)
SPACE
SPACE (PB)
SPACE (PB)
SPACE (PB)
STARFALL (HB)
STONE SPRING (HB)
STONE SPRING (PB)
STONE SPRING (PB)
SUNSTORM (PB)
THE ABSOLUTE AT LARGE (PB)
THE EARLS OF MERCIA (HB)
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS (PB)
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS (PB)
THE LONG COSMOS
THE LONG COSMOS
THE LONG COSMOS (CD)
THE LONG COSMOS (CD)
THE LONG COSMOS (CD)
THE LONG COSMOS (HB)
THE LONG COSMOS (PB)
THE LONG COSMOS (PB)
THE LONG EARTH
THE LONG EARTH (AUD)
THE LONG EARTH (CD)
THE LONG EARTH (CD)
THE LONG EARTH (HB)
THE LONG EARTH (HB)
THE LONG EARTH (PB)
THE LONG EARTH (PB)
THE LONG MARS
THE LONG MARS
THE LONG MARS (AUD)
THE LONG MARS (CD)
THE LONG MARS (CD)
THE LONG MARS (CD)
THE LONG MARS (HB)
THE LONG MARS (PB)
THE LONG MARS (PB)
THE LONG UTOPIA
THE LONG UTOPIA
THE LONG UTOPIA (CD)
THE LONG UTOPIA (CD)
THE LONG UTOPIA (CD)
THE LONG UTOPIA (HB)
THE LONG UTOPIA (PB)
THE LONG UTOPIA (PB)
THE LONG WAR
THE LONG WAR
THE LONG WAR (AUD)
THE LONG WAR (CD)
THE LONG WAR (CD)
THE LONG WAR (CD)
THE LONG WAR (HB)
THE LONG WAR (LONG EARTH 2) (PB)
THE LONG WAR (PB)
THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND
THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND
THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND (HB)
THE MASSACRE OF MANKIND (PB)
THE MEDUSA CHRONICLES
THE MEDUSA CHRONICLES (HB)
THE MEDUSA CHRONICLES (PB)
THE SCIENCE OF AVATAR (HB)
THE SCIENCE OF AVATAR (HB)
THE SCIENCE OF AVATAR (PB)
THE SOLARIS BOOK OF NEW SCIENCE FICTION (PB)
THE TIME SHIPS
THE TIME SHIPS (HB)
THE TIME SHIPS (PB)
THE TIME SHIPS (PB)
THOUSAND EARTHS
THOUSAND EARTHS (HB)
THOUSAND EARTHS (PB)
TIME
TIME (PB)
TIME (PB)
TIME (PB)
TIME PIECES (PB)
TIME SHIPS (PB)
TIME SHIPS (PB)
TIME'S EYE (PB)
TIME'S EYE (PB)
TIMELIKE INFINITY
TIMELIKE INFINITY (PB)
TIMES OF BEDE
TIMES OF BEDE
TIMES OF BEDE
TIMES OF BEDE (HB)
TITAN
TITAN (PB)
TITAN (PB)
TITAN (PB)
TITAN (PB)
TRACES
TRACES (PB)
TRACES (PB)
TRACES (PB)
TRACES (PB)
TRANSCENDENT (PB)
ULTIMA
ULTIMA (HB)
ULTIMA (PB)
ULTIMA (PB)
UNIVERSES (HB)
VACUUM DIAGRAMS (PB)
VACUUM DIAGRAMS (PB)
VOYAGE
VOYAGE (PB)

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