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The novel occurs mostly in a fictional future New York City, permanently inundated by two major rises in seawater levels caused by climate change. [1] Most of New York City is permanently underwater, however, people still live in the upper floors of the buildings, much like in the Venice of today.
Places where seawater and rainwater is pumped away are included. Fully natural places below sea level require a dry climate; otherwise, rain would exceed evaporation and fill the area. All figures are in meters below mean sea level (as locally defined), arranged by depth, lowest first:
The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke (1953 short story; 1957 novel) The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (1953) [1] The Dragon in the Sea by Frank Herbert (1956) [1] Dolphin Island by Arthur C. Clarke (1963) The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard (1966) Tunnel Through the Deeps by Harry Harrison (1972) The Godwhale by T. J. Bass (1974) The Illuminatus!
Scientists Are Racing to Unearth the Secrets of an Ancient Underwater World. Darren Orf. January 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM. ... water levels rose and inundated these low-lying areas, wiping away any ...
The novel ends in 2052, as a group of survivors watch the submergence of the peak of Mount Everest. Lily has survived and wonders what the grandchildren of her late sister's family and her old hostage comrades from 30 years ago will make of post-deluge Earth, now at a new environmental equilibrium, with a vast global storm system that is ...
Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists from a variety of northern European research institutions are ...
A map of sea surface temperatures across the world. Yellow, orange and red represent areas where water is warmer than historical averages, and blue represents areas where water is cooler than ...
The novel is an expansion of the novella "The Drowned World", which was first published in Science Fiction Adventures magazine, in the January 1962 issue, Vol. 4, No. 24. In 2010, Time magazine named The Drowned World one of the ten best novels about a post-apocalyptic world on Earth. [2]