Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780575080584
ISBN: 0575080582
Label: Gollancz
Manufacturer: Gollancz
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: July 17, 2008
Publisher: Gollancz
Studio: Gollancz

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Rating: - Requiem For a Drowned World (4.5 Stars ****)
This book begins in 2016 with the story of five hostages held in Barcelona, and it's raining heavily and won't stop. They're rescued by a team sent by Nathan Lomockson - a technocrat and very rich man - but not before one of them is brutally killed. The remaining four pledge to look out for each other from then on. Lomockson himself takes a lifelong interest in each of them, and their fates thereafter are tied in with his. The ensuing events in the novel take place over a span of around sixty years. ... Read More

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Rating: - An engrossing tale of "What if..."
Flood is an engrossing tale of the world's future inundation, with sufficient scientific explanation to satisfy those who require more than mere descriptions of devastation.

As the water rises in London its effect is handled graphically, not only in the actual description of the flood but also in the reactions of the city's initially-uncomprehending populace, to present a terrifying picture of its panic-stricken inhabitants. Finding themselves in an unprecedented situation they are at first ... Read More

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Rating: - Washed away
Upon opening the envelope that this arrived it I loved the bit of marketing from the publisher, they'd put it in a zip lock bag. Yet apart from this piece of fun what did the book entail and how did it deliver?

In short this tale ended up a cross between Flood (the UK TV drama which also has a similar beginning) and Waterworld where death sails the seven seas (or rather the one sea with jutting bits of land) and mankind is forced to survive by wits and science cunning. Not only is the tale ... Read More

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Rating: - A bit wishy washy....
I have read some stuff in my time, but pseudo psycho science babble like this really takes some beating. To call the book implausible is doing a misservice to the word implausible. Not the science, mind you. That I can live with and why it gets two stars rather than one.

No, it is the stream of two dimensional cartoon characters that populate the drowning world that drove me to distraction and the endless clichés. And to say this book shows mankinds humanity as one of the formal reviewers ... Read More

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Rating: - it could have been a good film - but it's not
I read the book that this film purports to be based on back in the 70s - I live in the East End of London and knew the places described in the book and could imagine them under twelve feet of water - and I avoided the Underground for quite some time after reading it!

I'd heard that this film was'nt much good, so I waited till it was cheap enough on the High Street for me not to care if I wasted only a few quid.

Let's take the points that led me to that conclusion: the Barrier is run ... Read More

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