The Deluge
Book description
"This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting." -Stephen King
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
In the first decades of the 21st…
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1 author picked The Deluge as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Stephen Markley’s massive near-future climate apocalypse novel The Deluge features a sprawling Balzacian cast and an acknowledged debt to Stephen King’s The Stand.
The narrative proceeds, year by painful year, to detail the climatic, political, and social catastrophe that’s just around the corner.
The benefit of Markley’s painstaking approach is that the world he builds looks depressingly like our own: no Mad Max/Planet of the Apes craziness. Just a bunch of highly realistic political and corporate skullduggery that inches us closer and closer to apocalypse.
The characters are largely idealists, including a neurodiverse policy wonk who, entirely straight-faced, proposes…
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