Flood Waters Down

A prescient and deeply relevant novel of environmental collapse and AI rule – a literary thriller for the climate age. In the flooded Fens of eastern England, the abandoned poor cling to life in a waterlogged wilderness, while the wealthy elite live inside a luxurious domed enclave ruled by an increasingly malevolent intelligence. Evocative, prophetic and fiercely human, Flood Waters Down is a powerful exploration of survival, resistance and moral reckoning in a world undone by climate collapse and threatened by the very entity it created to save itself. This is a story of what happens when adaptation comes too late – and when greed, self-interest and technology collide with the forces of nature. It’s both an intimate human drama and a speculative exploration of the choices that define us in crisis. The author’s background in science and environmental journalism infuses the narrative with authenticity, while his spare, cinematic prose evokes a world at once recognisable and transformed. Flood Waters Down echoes the psychological landscapes of JG Ballard and captures a future that feels disturbingly close.