The Drowned World starts out as hard science, but gets a little mental.

It’s subtle, though-they don’t start digging holes or anything. These surroundings trigger psychological changes in him and others, back to when humans were nothing but shrews scampering away from dinosaurs. Kerans contends with a Triassic-like environment with giant iguanas and mosquitoes the size of dragonflies. (This was written in 1962, so way before the current climate change troubles.)ĭuring a scientific expedition to a sunken London, Dr. Humanity is now collected down in Antartica or above the Arctic circle. In The Drowned World, the sun’s become too hot (130☏ on a good day), and the cities of the world are submerged. “ chilling debut… Malerman… keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling douses his tale in poetic gloom… An unsettling thriller, this earns comparisons to Hitchcock’s The Birds, as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.” But when supplies ran low, they were forced to venture outside-and confront the ultimate question: in a world gone mad, who can really be trusted? Under the guidance of the stalwart Tom, a motly group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror, creating order from the chaos.

But is it man, animal, or monster?Įngulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey-a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat-blindfolded-with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe.

No one knows what it is or where it came from.įive years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. Something terrifying that must not be seen.

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