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The Drowned World

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It is more about sea rise than about climate change (that involves far more than just the rise of oceans).

Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain feels more down to the ground, but I suppose that there are plenty of other recent science fiction books about climate change.

And Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl present a more complex world where there was an important sea rise due to climate change, but a lot of other things happened in different areas, in different ways. Is not as accurate as the previous one, but is more entertaining as fiction book.

Drowned world is a psychological treatise that explores the impact of an environmental crisis on our dreams. One of my all time favorites.

Great BBC Audio Version with the music of Can.

https://youtu.be/xWflGtKqe8o

Bits of John Wyndham's "The Kraken Wakes" (published 1953) also present rising sea levels, albeit caused by aliens intentionally melting the ice caps rather than humans accidentally doing it.

In the book, most people don't care until it's too late, and then they adjust to the post-apocalyptic world with a combination of violence and resignation.

It's a great book and one of my all time favourites but it's not really about Global Warming as the title suggests. That's the backdrop to the story more than anything.

Yeah I wasn’t sure how to describe it, but “about” seemed sufficient, as it generally includes the backdrop of the story. E. g. a cyberpunk future Los Angeles is just the backdrop of Blade Runner, but it’s clearly a critical part of the film.

I read over 20 years ago and still think about it fairly frequently. It had a compulsive hypnotic quality that is hard to let go of.

Yeah I love it, it really captures the feeling of being in a very hot and humid environment and the slight unreality of it.

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