Descriptions : Hundreds will live, six billion will die.Our world ended in 2052, the year the last great flood finally overwhelmed the lands.A desperate bid for survival began in America, in the years before the end The project which could be our final act could also be an impossible dream creating a starship to take a few hundred survivors on an epic journey to a new world.As the wate Hundreds will live, six billion will die.Our world ended in 2052, the year the last great flood finally overwhelmed the lands.A desperate bid for survival began in America, in the years before the end The project which could be our final act could also be an impossible dream creating a starship to take a few hundred survivors on an epic journey to a new world.As the waters rise, as savage wars are fought over the remaining high ground, the work goes on Those who will live, of the billions who will die, are chosen Families are torn apart and the resources of our drowning world are marshalled for one last gamble Ark is the story of three women, Grace, Venus and Holle, and their part in humanity s struggle to reach a new home For the few survivors, the day of the launch will be only the beginning of the nightmare
Author:Stephen Baxter
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Climatic Changes, End of the World, Floods, Earth Sciences, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science, General, Meteorology & Climatology
ISBN: 9780451463289
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-01-02T08:00:00+00:00
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Amanda followed Lily into the short hallway. Her face was a mask of anger, unrecognizable from the expression she had presented in public. She hissed, “What the hell are you doing? I invited you here to talk over this business with Kristie, at your insistence you’ll remember. Now you’re just taking over, are you? It’s Dartmoor all over again.”
Lily spread her hands. “I don’t mean it like that. I just want—”
Amanda said furiously, “You want to meddle in my life because you don’t have a life of your own. You want to screw around with my relationship with my kids, because you don’t have kids of your own. That’s all there is to it. This isn’t about my needs, Lily. It’s about yours. It always is.”
Lily was stung. “Amanda, for God’s sake—”
“Just go,” Amanda said. She practically shoved her sister out of the heavy front door, into the Andean sunshine, and slammed it closed.