Drowned Worlds Author:Jonathan Strahan (Editor) The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, James Morrow and others. — We stand at the beginning ... more »of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time on Man. The world is warming and seas are rising. We may deny it, but we can't hide when the water comes. Already the streets of Miami flood regularly and Mick Jones looks more and more prescient when he sang that 'London is drowning and I, I live by the river!' all those years ago. And yet water is life. It brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises in its place. There has always been romance and adventure in the streets of a drowned London or on gorgeous sailing cities spanning a submerged world, sleek ships exploring as land gets ever rarer. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise, good or bad.
Here you'll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard's 'The Drowned World', Sterling's 'Islands in the Net', and Ryman's 'The Child Garden'. Stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all.
Contents:
Introduction (Drowned Worlds) • essay by Jonathan Strahan
Elves of Antarctica / shortfiction by Paul J. McAuley
Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts / shortfiction by Ken Liu
Venice Drowned (1981) / novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Brownsville Station / shortfiction by Christopher Rowe
Who Do You Love? / shortfiction by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy / shortfiction by Charlie Jane Anders
The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known / shortfiction by Nina Allan
What Is / shortfiction by Jeffrey Ford
Destroyed by the Waters / shortfiction by Rachel Swirsky
The New Venusians / shortfiction by Sean Williams
Inselberg / shortfiction by Nalo Hopkinson
Only Ten More Shopping Days Left Till Ragnarok / shortfiction by James Morrow
Last Gods / shortfiction by Sam J. Miller
Drowned / shortfiction by Lavie Tidhar
The Future is Blue / shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente