Flood

by Stephen Baxter

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101138847
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/05/2009
Series:	A Novel of the Flood , #1
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	719 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool, England, in 1957. He holds degrees in mathematics, from Cambridge University; engineering, from Southampton University; and business administration, from Henley Management College. He’s a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.

His first professionally published short story appeared in 1987. He has been a full-time author since 1995 and is currently Vice-President of the British Science Fiction Association.

His science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, France. His books have won several awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the John Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan) and have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and Locus awards. He has also published over 100 sf short stories, several of which have won prizes. He can be found at stephen-baxter.com.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A largely old-fashioned disaster tale presented with spectacle and efficient pacing."
-Locus

"A gripping near-future allegory of global warming."
-BBC Focus

"Bold, compassionate, exhilarating, wrenching stuff."
-Niall Harrison, Internet Review of Science Fiction

Editorial Reviews

While Baxter doesn't spend a lot of time on individual psychology, he deftly captures the way people as a group delude themselves into thinking that things are going to be okay, even when clearly they are not. In that sense, the story is horrifyingly believable.
—The Washington Post

Sara Sklaroff

"A largely old-fashioned disaster tale presented with spectacle and efficient pacing."
-Locus

"A gripping near-future allegory of global warming."
-BBC Focus

"Bold, compassionate, exhilarating, wrenching stuff."
-Niall Harrison, Internet Review of Science Fiction

From the Publisher