Drowned Worlds

Charlie Jane Anders · Kim Stanley Robinson · Nina Allan · Ken Liu

Jul 2016 · Solaris

About this ebook

We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.

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. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan has put together sixteen unique tales of deluged worlds and those who fight to survive and strive to live.

Featuring fiction by Paul McAuley, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nina Allan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Christopher Rowe, Nalo Hopkinson, Sean Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, Rachel Swirsky, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Sam J. Miller and Catherynne M. Valente.

About the author

Jonathan Strahan is an editor and anthologist. He has edited or co-edited more than twenty anthologies since 1997, including Eclipse One, Two and Three, both volumes of The New Space Opera, and Godlike Machines, as well as the Infinity Project and the New Solaris Book of Fantasy for Solaris. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife and their two daughters. www.jonathanstrahan.com.au