The Day the Oceans Overflowed

by Charles Fontenay

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Enjoyable but not exceptional doomsday story. In its favour, the tidal wave scenes are probably more realistic than most but, because of that, they are not as spectacular and exciting as they could have been. The story also falls into some of the classic cliches of this type of book but, to be fair, I can't say whether they were cliches back in 1964 when it was written. But the above points are concentrating on the critical. It's a quick, enjoyable read with a great premise - the kind of story SyFy could make a cheap but decent disaster movie from.

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Brand Caravel; Colonel Arthur Ryder; Craig Blackthorne; Jimmy Haggard; Harriet Blackthorne; Camilla Blackthorne (show all 10); Ashley Garland; Noah "Old Man Noah" Adams; Chris Blackthorne; Bill "The Duke of Cistern Springs" Dolphin
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Ellesmere Island; New Argos; Noah's Knob; Reston; Cistern Springs
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Brand Caravel stood on the ice, under the interweaving Northern lights, and reflected on the advantages and disadvantages of participation in the most gigantic scientific experiment since man landed on the moon.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Slowly, the ark drifted westward.

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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English

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