

- Climatic changes, End of the world, Floods, Fiction
The "deeply scary"(BBC Focus) new novel from a national bestselling and critically acclaimed author. View our feature on Stephen Baxter’s Flood. Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona.
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Epic, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Gollancz, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575080584
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