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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!
“Twenty-thousand years ago, the global sea level was 130 metres lower than at present. With progressive global warming and sea-level rise, unique landscapes, home to human societies for ...
The above effects are catastrophic and exceed current estimates of climate change-related sea level rise.In the opening chapter, four main characters (former USAF Captain Lily Brooke, British military officer Piers Michaelmas, English tourist Helen Gray, and NASA scientist Gary Boyle) are liberated by a private megacorporation called AxysCorp from a Christian extremist Catalan terrorist bunker ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...