Flood: By Stephan Baxter
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I have read blurbs, which failed to interest me, but I am wondering: how exactly did all that crustal water (which as far as I know, is very securely chemically locked up in rock) rip loose?
Bruce
I think in this book it wasn't chemically locked, but actually trapped like aquaducts under the crust. You must keep in mind the whole story was over the top. Place it up there with the movie 2012, with more thought placed into it in the science department. Nice look at how corporations are going to be able to survive a little longer than federal governments will and how people will keep trying to create social structures as the world changes around them, even drastically at some points. I kinda got the idea that it was a critique of humans and our society in some ways.
I liked Waterworld.
I haven't read it, but I plan to if I can find a copy at the local library.
Oookay. But then again, this is the man that decided to have 1930s pulp fiction atomic physics in "Timeships."
Bruce
I have read it and its sequel Ark which explains what Ark 2 is. Implausible that rising sea levels aren't caused by global warming inb the story but otherwise a good read. Not strictly AH as it occures in the future
My biggest problem with the whole series is it explains pretty early on the water upwelling from the depths is fresh. Therefore, the salinity of the sea should have been steadily dropping, to the point where almost all invertebrate life in the sea would die. Many marine fish could survive no problem in brackish water, but the base of the food chain would be wrecked, so everything above bacteria would probably die.
Oh, and as the world gets covered by more and more water. it becomes stormier. Continents are pretty much what causes weather - without them we'd have much less rainfall, because temperature differentials would be less. You'd get evaporation and light ran in pretty much the same area it started.
Come to think of it, it's never really explained how humans are surviving floating in the sea. I mean, what are they doing for drinking water? It doesn't seem like many of them have the technology needed for cisterns any more.
Oh, and as the world gets covered by more and more water. it becomes stormier. Continents are pretty much what causes weather - without them we'd have much less rainfall, because temperature differentials would be less. You'd get evaporation and light ran in pretty much the same area it started.
Come to think of it, it's never really explained how humans are surviving floating in the sea. I mean, what are they doing for drinking water? It doesn't seem like many of them have the technology needed for cisterns any more.
That's because the entire novel is an homage to the various works of H G Wells, as well as being the authorised Time Machine sequel. Hence the "Carolinum" bomb's characteristics; the land ironclads; the domed cities, with their public propaganda screens; etc, etc
(But then maybe you know that)
I'm not sure about those, but Ark does make mention of Earths II and III. It's possible that they take place in the same TL.
Hm. I thought it was a tribute to the "atomic bombs" that appear in "The World Set Free.."
'When he could look down again it was like looking down upon the crater of a small volcano. In the open garden before the Imperial castle a shuddering star of evil splendor spurted and poured up smoke and flame toward them like an accusation..'
( http://www.thenation.com/doc/19450818/wells )
Bruce
Those are the ones I meant. There's all sorts of references throughout The Time Ships to other of Wells' works. Like the huge time-travelling tank, which isn't a Land Ironclad at all...