A vision of hope sinking and hope rising, in an America paralyzed by corporate control of government while sea levels rise catastrophically due to human-caused climate change.

First published in The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1975, the scarily prescient story was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards, and won the Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette. The ebook includes a new foreword by the author.

Goodreads Reviews

Back to GoodReads