The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked from the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and Wayne Morrow. We stand at the beginning of 1 of the greatest ecological disasters in the time of Man. The world can be warming and seas are increasing. We might deny it, but we can not hide when the water comes..Read More on the subject of Drowned Worlds Already the roads of Miami overflow regularly and Mick Jones appears more and more prescient when he sang that ‘London is drowning and We, I live from the river!’ all those years ago. Yet water is lifestyle. It brings switch. Where one thing is wiped away, another goes up in its place. There’s always been romance and adventure in the roads of the drowned London or on gorgeous sailing towns spanning a submerged world, sleek ships discovering as property gets ever rarer. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise, good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories influenced by Ballard’s The Drowned Globe, Sterling’s Islands in the web, and Ryman’s The Child Garden. Stories that allow that things gets even worse, but remembers that such moments also draw out the very best in people. Author bio: Jonathan Strahan may be the multi-award earning editor of such anthologies as Engineering Infinity, Fearsome Magics, THE VERY BEST of Science Fiction & Illusion, The Year’s Greatest Australian Technology Fiction and Fantasy, and many additional ground-breaking collections of the extremely finest genre fiction.