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The Deluge was the climax of a series of wars that took place in Poland–Lithuania in the mid-17th century. The Commonwealth was first affected by the Khmelnytsky Uprising, which began in 1648, and affected southeastern provinces of the country.
Jan 10, 2023 · The Deluge is a science fiction book that depicts a near future America facing a climate change crisis and a political upheaval. It follows the stories of several characters who are affected by the rising seas, the extreme weather, and the eco-terrorism.
The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Commonwealth during its historical period of the Deluge, which was a part of the Northern Wars .
Jan 10, 2023 · Although there are dozens of characters populating Stephen Markley’s second novel, “ The Deluge ,” the real protagonist is America, and although numerous forces and foot soldiers undergird ...
Jan 10, 2023 · —Stephen King, on Twitter "Immersive and ambitious, [The Deluge] shows the range of its author’s gifts: polyphonic narration, silken sentences and elaborate world-building.” — New York Times Book Review "An astonishing feat of procedural imagination, narrative construction and scientific acumen."
“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.”—Sean Adams, author of The Heap “A masterclass of climate fiction. This barnstormer of a book is a ...
Jan 10, 2023 · The author of The Deluge, a 900-page novel about climate collapse, is a surprisingly cheerful guy. Here, he explains how he clings to hope in the face of despair.