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The following is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place significantly or partially underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, such as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty ...
The children of the rafts, raised on the water, start building their own aquatic culture. By the novel's end, extinction seems inevitable for humanity on Earth. However, we learn later in the book that Ark Three (the aforementioned ocean liner) was one of many projects created by AxysCorp and a few other groups.
The Scouting stories, originally printed in the Boy Scouts of America magazine Boys' Life, were part of Heinlein's effort to diversify beyond pulp science fiction. [20] Farmer in the Sky, which also had a strong connection to Scouting, was serialized in Boys' Life under the title "Satellite Scout". Heinlein considered writing another Boy Scout ...
Beyond the Aquila Rift is a 2016 collection of science fiction short stories and novellas by British author Alastair Reynolds, published by Gollancz, and edited by Jonathan Strahan and William Schafer. It contains works previously published in other venues.
After an extensive drought, [3] rivers have turned to trickles and the earth to dust, causing the world's populations to head toward the oceans in search of water. The drought is caused by industrial waste flushed into the ocean, which form an oxygen-permeable barrier of saturated long-chain polymers that prevents evaporation and destroys the ...
Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help. ... When we pull water from the aquifer, it’s a bit like sucking water out of a sponge made of rock, gravel, sand and other geologic materials.
The book is set in a New York City suffering a 50-foot rise in sea-water. However, scientists suggest a rise between 3 and 15 feet (0.9 and 5 metres) is more likely by 2140. [5] [6] A rise on that scale would likely mean that some portions of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens would be flooded, but not to the extent as featured in the novel. [6]
Children's books by body of water (3 C) ... Fiction set in extraterrestrial oceans (1 C, 2 P) Fictional oceans and seas (7 P) Films by body of water (7 C) I.