Science Fiction
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The Deluge
"This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting." -Stephen King
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters-a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity's last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters-a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity's last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.
Editorial Reviews
"This is a stunning achievement that may earn a place among dystopian and apocalyptic classics like 1984 and On the Beach. And perhaps most of all, it's an unflinching and utterly compelling call to action to prevent an all-too-possible future."-Library Journal (starred review)
"In this brilliant dystopian epic... [Markley's] nuanced characterizations of individuals with different approaches to the existential threat make the perils they encounter feel real as they navigate cover-ups and lies. It's a disturbing tour de force."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An ambitious rendering of a forbidding future and the public and private challenges that will define it."-Kirkus
"[A]mbitious, sprawling… a demanding but worthwhile read."-Booklist
"A ferocious, spectacular achievement. A masterful beast of intellect and heart.?Markley should take his place as a visionary of our time." -Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back
"A major achievement, bountifully imagined. Unquestionably one of the best novels to grapple with the climate crisis. I am haunted by it."- Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
"A stunning and comprehensive view of a future that is both impressively imagined and terrifyingly imminent."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place For Us
"Engrossing and timely. A towering achievement in style and substance that is at once timeless and impossibly urgent."-Ben Philippe, author of Charming as a Verb
"The Deluge is not just an impressively well-thought-out and all-too-realistic catalog of the ways in which the climate crisis might mutate into something much worse; it's also a page-turner packed with no shortage of thrills or heart."-
"In this brilliant dystopian epic... [Markley's] nuanced characterizations of individuals with different approaches to the existential threat make the perils they encounter feel real as they navigate cover-ups and lies. It's a disturbing tour de force."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An ambitious rendering of a forbidding future and the public and private challenges that will define it."-Kirkus
"[A]mbitious, sprawling… a demanding but worthwhile read."-Booklist
"A ferocious, spectacular achievement. A masterful beast of intellect and heart.?Markley should take his place as a visionary of our time." -Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back
"A major achievement, bountifully imagined. Unquestionably one of the best novels to grapple with the climate crisis. I am haunted by it."- Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
"A stunning and comprehensive view of a future that is both impressively imagined and terrifyingly imminent."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place For Us
"Engrossing and timely. A towering achievement in style and substance that is at once timeless and impossibly urgent."-Ben Philippe, author of Charming as a Verb
"The Deluge is not just an impressively well-thought-out and all-too-realistic catalog of the ways in which the climate crisis might mutate into something much worse; it's also a page-turner packed with no shortage of thrills or heart."-
