Reply #4: "Flood" by Stephen Baxter....an excellent post-apocalyptic novel....

[Rowdyboy]

which begins in the year 2016 and covers the next 40 years or so. It paints a dismal picture of climatic disaster and corporate greed. Interesting characters too....

The best hard science fiction I've read in a long while


http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/07/flood_by_stephe.shtml

It turns out this is the way the world ends: neither with a bang nor a whimper, but a splosh. Baxter's new novel is, in several senses, a storming disaster tale—his best book for a long time, actually. It's a splendid and engrossing read and a thought-provoking whole to boot.

The story is there in the title. In 2016 persistent rainfall and rising sea-levels overcome the Thames Barrier and central London floods. Similar inundations happen in low-lying coastal regions around the world. Some consider this freak weather, others, small-scale global warming; but as Baxter's novel moves on, it becomes clear that something on a much larger scale is happening. The novel then tracks through three decades of rising water, and humanity's various strategies for dealing, or incapacities for coping, with the results.