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The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley
Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, Stephen Graybill, Soneela Nankani, Joy Osmanski, Melissa Redmond, Aida Reluzco, André Santana, Neil Shah, Aven Shore, Shakira Shute, Pete Simonelli, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
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 A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.

In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.

From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity’s last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have. Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Emotionally Gripping Feel-Good

Critic Reviews

"Each narrator is distinctive and unique, and their styles are sometimes very different. But over so many hours those differences balance out and lend credence to a narrative that spans the globe, and years into the future. Together, these fine performers bring substance to the novel’s human drama and its urgent environmental message."
All stars
Most relevant
I don’t think I appreciated the work of voice actors much, but the way Chapter 19 was done (among many great chapters) really moved me. Truly fantastic.

Chapter 19 performance is incredible

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I’ve read smarter pro reviews.

This book is familiar and horrible like a train wreck - often more human condition and the polarising political climate.

Moral dilemmas abound.

Cast is good, characters may be sometimes cutouts but often profoundly real and familiar.

Long but couldn’t put it down

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Amazing insite to an array of completely different characters and personalities from different walks of life with a great cast voice-over actors to match those personalities. It's a long book and can get quite dark and hopeless at times but also lights a fire under your seat to make you want to do more to help save our only home.

What a journey

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This story takes you deep into the thoughts and feelings of each beautifully crafted character. They each are symbols for aspects of society that are impacted by or have direct impact to climate change. This isn’t a derivative helpless doomsday story or an uplifting story of hope. It’s an invitation to look at what is happening and choose.

A glimpse into the near distant future

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An epic and exceptional depiction of a world collapsing from the effects of climate change. Scarily realistic, it weaves the stories of several great characters to show the economic, political and societal effects of climate change over the next 20 years.

Definitely one of my favourite books I've ever read, I feel a bit bereft now it's finished. It will make you want to move to higher ground, grow your own veg and take positive action to make things better.

One of my favourite ever books

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I got through "OHIO" in Two days and the novel left me stunned. Deluge took me a few more days, Definitely a great book but not quite the EPIC that OHIO was, IN saying that in my own experience with reading books when I have no distractions I obviously get through a lot quicker. if I'm on Assignment somewhere I don't get the same dedication into reading/ listening to books and in the distractions the books suffer a little. I think I'll listen again to DELUGE where I can listen non stop because it is a great book.
JARED SUTHERTON

ANOTHER GREAT NOVEL FROM STEPHEN MARKLEY

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Sorry to say, I really struggled to finish this book. The narration for the majority of characters in the book was annoying and hard to follow, I didn't have a clue where I was half the time. The only plus, there were some interesting points, views, if such an event was to occur.

Sorry not for me

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