Post by triffiduscelestus on Mar 2, 2014 1:22:57 GMT
I have just finished this sweeping book and really enjoyed it.
For the English forum members this is quite topical with floods sweeping across their low land areas right now.
The book opens with tales of the climate change and financial difficulties leading to political unrest in Spain and a motley group being held hostage. Their release and subsequent follow up informs the narrative of the story across the next forty years.
Floods, larger than the 1953 floods initially affect the UK but then storm surges affect Sydney, most of south east asia and the water rises. The depiction of the social chaos, conflict and the parts denial play are all well set out by Baxter.
The water keeps rising and it become obvious there are feedback loops with the climate change and something else causing water to rise and rise it does, throughout this large 544page book.
The book borrows something from World War Z or the autobiographical interviews of Studs Terkel with small montages of different characters over the world that pencils in the story as it develops to its totally apocalyptic end. There may even be a little too much of this and the negative reviews on Amazon focus on this - too many characters, too many settings.
I am just about to start the sequel, Ark. Apparently a little more hard science about departing the drowning earth for sanctuary in the stars.
Quite topical at the moment:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/11/englands-floods-everything-you-need-to-know
gawker.com/massive-tidal-waves-in-spain-are-washing-people-away-1517015853
lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/californias-drought-is-staggering-when.html
ensia.com/voices/in-a-global-warming-world-protect-and-rebuild-or-retreat/
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cloncurry-a-town-in-the-queensland-outback-that-is-so-dry-it-may-have-to-be-abandoned-9110247.html
For the English forum members this is quite topical with floods sweeping across their low land areas right now.
The book opens with tales of the climate change and financial difficulties leading to political unrest in Spain and a motley group being held hostage. Their release and subsequent follow up informs the narrative of the story across the next forty years.
Floods, larger than the 1953 floods initially affect the UK but then storm surges affect Sydney, most of south east asia and the water rises. The depiction of the social chaos, conflict and the parts denial play are all well set out by Baxter.
The water keeps rising and it become obvious there are feedback loops with the climate change and something else causing water to rise and rise it does, throughout this large 544page book.
The book borrows something from World War Z or the autobiographical interviews of Studs Terkel with small montages of different characters over the world that pencils in the story as it develops to its totally apocalyptic end. There may even be a little too much of this and the negative reviews on Amazon focus on this - too many characters, too many settings.
I am just about to start the sequel, Ark. Apparently a little more hard science about departing the drowning earth for sanctuary in the stars.
Quite topical at the moment:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/11/englands-floods-everything-you-need-to-know
gawker.com/massive-tidal-waves-in-spain-are-washing-people-away-1517015853
lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/californias-drought-is-staggering-when.html
ensia.com/voices/in-a-global-warming-world-protect-and-rebuild-or-retreat/
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cloncurry-a-town-in-the-queensland-outback-that-is-so-dry-it-may-have-to-be-abandoned-9110247.html
