Book description
We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time - the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.
Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if…
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1 author picked Drowned Worlds as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I like a good fiction anthology, and this one, which focuses on the future if we do nothing to stop human-caused climate change, is really good. It focuses on the rising seas, looking at the future in a drowned world, both good and bad. There are a number of excellent speculative fiction writers here, including my favorites, Ken Liu and Stanley Robinson.
As bad as things are getting and will get, I like to be reminded of human resilience, and most of these stories do that. Some are apocalyptic, but I need to be reminded of that as well; what…
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