The world drowned.
It took a long time.
Eleven novels of the flooded far future — a saga of the people who moved onto the water, the institutions they built there, and what it costs to keep anything true.
The sea rose for two hundred years before anyone called it an age. What drowned first was not the land — it was the assumption that things would return to normal. Humanity did not end. It moved onto the water and stayed there, and after a few generations stopped thinking of itself as displaced.
Then, much later, it happened a second time. And that time it was not the weather’s fault.
THE DROWNING YEARS
The collapse, and the first generations on the water. Three books.
THE SECOND DROWNING
The disaster that severed the record. Two books.
THE DROWNED AGE TRILOGY
The centre of gravity, four centuries on. Three books.
THE LATER STORIES
What the next generation inherited. Three books.
The Seven of the Gyre — official trailer
Where to start
If you want one place to begin: The Seven of the Gyre. It sits at the saga’s centre of gravity, and everything else can be read outward from it.
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That said, the four collections are each written to be entered from the front, so anywhere is a defensible start. Read them in the order the world lived them — beginning with The Drowning Years — or begin with the trilogy and work outward. Both routes are correct, and the saga was built to survive either.
Or simply begin reading: extracts from The First Drowning, The Returned Sky, The Seven of the Gyre and The Drownborn — the opening of each collection.
New to the world? A short orientation covers everything you need before you start — and nothing you don’t.
Not sure where to begin? A Short Guide to the Drowned Age is free — a short, spoiler-safe orientation to the world, sent to you.