The Deluge

"""This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.""--Stephen King ""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.""--Los Angeles Times ""A clear-eyed, climate-justice-minded page-turner. . . . Stephen Markley's new novel is part thriller, part horror, part all-too-real. It's scary, instructive and also entertaining.""--Washington Post ""This book is destined to be a classic and needs to be read by anyone who can get their hands on it.... THE DELUGE is ultimately a feel-good work that will leave readers reeling from the amount of information that has been dissected and shared."" --Book Reporter ""Markley's dark depiction of the near future is filled with vivid descriptions of climate catastrophes, but his intricate network of complex characters balances precision with pathos, offering a kaleidoscopic view of humanity's fraught relationship with its changing planet.""--Scientific American ""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 ""What makes you not want to put it down, is you care about the people in the book"" --Seth Meyers ""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.""--Sean Adams, author of The Heap ""A masterclass of climate fiction. This barnstormer of a book is a must-read.""--Nana Nkweti, author of Walking on Cowrie Shells ""A seminal novel and a singular achievement. The Deluge is sure to take a place alongside such great environmental books as The Overstory, The Shell Collector, Barkskins, Flight Behavior and so many others.""--Bill Cusumano, Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi ""An epic work of great ambition, Stephen Markley's The Deluge is unyielding; it marvels and it mortifies. Few books in a lifetime will make you feel as this one must and while full of every kind of blooming horror, Markley's magnum opus is as engulfing as it is earnest.""--Jeremy Garber, Powells, Portland Oregon ""A terrifyingly imagined future, made all the more believable by the real characters in the not so distant past and present. An important book.""--Bobbi Irving, Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley, Pennsylvania ""One of those rare novels that manages to be deeply informative and a page-turner at the same time, The Deluge takes us on an intrigue-laden journey into a possible future that is truthful with regard to both the urgency and agency that exists today in addressing the climate crisis.""--Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania and author of ""The New Climate War"""