Visions of Earth besieged by floods and wildfires propel these intensely dramatic, vividly imagined, psychologically rich, and ecologically conscious novels and one linked-story collection, each a tale of nature’s beauty and wonders and human hubris and vulnerability.
After the Flood. By Kassandra Montag. 2019. Morrow, $27.99 (9780062889362).
In Montag’s thrilling speculative adventure, set in a future climate-change-altered world overrun by water and pirates, Myra and her younger daughter, Pearl, struggle to survive by fishing, trading, and avoiding opportunist raiders while Myra searches for Row, her abducted older daughter.
All the Water in the World. By Eiren Caffall. 2025. St. Martin’s, $29 (9781250353528).
Scientists and their families are living on the roof of the closed American Museum of Natural History in a ravaged, mostly abandoned New York City, when a flooding…