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". . . I . . . arrived at a table . . . of new hardback history books. It was an act of self-punishment to read the titles . . . The past was as monstrously heaped and oppressive as the books about it. I was too weak to face it or them. There was too much of everything."

I loved this, a story of a 22nd century academic searching for the crowning achievement of a 21st century poet lost in the mists of time, and maybe the seas covering most of England. The book reminds us that although we may think that themes in books are about the world in general, sometimes they’re closer to home.

I loved this story of our submerged future world. An academic in the 22nd century searches for the lost work of a 21st century poet, this talked about the state of the world and impending environmental disaster. The book is a prescient example of how in the end it’s people that produce all of this, and they have their own motives whatever we think.