Flood

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Stephen Baxter: Flood (Paperback, 2010, Roc)

Paperback, 496 pages

Published May 4, 2010 by Roc.

ISBN:
978-0-451-46328-9
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OCLC Number:
462901263

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3 stars (10 reviews)

The "deeply scary"(BBC Focus) new novel from a national bestselling and critically acclaimed author. View our feature on Stephen Baxter’s Flood. Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. After five years of being held captive together, they make a vow to always watch out for one another. But they never expected this… The world they have returned to has been transformed by water—and the water is rising. As it continues to flow from the earth’s mantle, entire countries disappear. High ground becomes a precious commodity. And finally, the dreadful truth is revealed: before fifty years have passed, there will be nowhere left to run...

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I actually stopped reading about 120 pages in, which is rare for me. This book is basically an interesting thought experiment loosely framed as a novel. The characters could not be more forgettable and less developed. I got the idea Mr. Baxter knows the science backwards and forwards, but as a story, this was just painful, basically just meteorological conjecture punctuated with British place names and cardboard characters. Life's too short.

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  • Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Authors, A-Z -- ( B ) -- Baxter, Stephen
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Science Fiction