![]() ![]() Maybe that’s why Stephen King went out as an early batter for The Deluge. No bookseller would place this in the horror section of the store, but it is profoundly frightening nonetheless. ![]() The book traces our shared fate through four decades of accelerating chaos as activism fails, politics betray us, and both the world and society heat up. It’s a behemoth, 900-page map to the madness of humanity’s near-future. But where Ohio focused on a single night in a single blue-collar town, The Deluge takes the entire planet as its stage. Both books share certain traits: a broad cast of characters, an of-the-moment response to crisis, and well-researched insight into the details of the problem. The Deluge, out now, is his second novel, following 2018’s acclaimed Ohio. We can still talk books, though, because Markley has written one. ![]() But this is not a sane or rational world. Global warming, the climate collapse, call it whatever you want-in a sane world, it would be the only thing anyone is talking about, because it constitutes the greatest threat to human society in our entire checkered history.
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