His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters-a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. “When I die, I want to be remembered as the guy who freaked out Stephen King,” Markley said. The other tweet from King called Markley’s novel “more terrifying than THE STAND. “I grew up a total Stephen King fanatic, so basically from ages 11 to 14, I read everything the guy had published to that point, and continued to.” “Not bad,” Markley responded in a deadpan voice, drawing laughter from the audience. The first called Markley’s novel “prophetic, terrifying, uplifting,” and Meyers asked King how it felt to get praise from the horror novelist. Meyers showed a pair of tweets from Stephen King about The Deluge. The situation where plot points I’m concocting in 2012 are suddenly headlines in 2022, even with…Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I’m racing back through the book on fourth pass to try to account for that, because I had it happening in 2032.”
“ constantly revising in these last three years based on stuff that’s happening in the news. “The hardest part about the editing process was making the zippers of the teeth fit together,” Markley responded. Meyers noted that Markley wrote the book over a period of more than a dozen years and asked him if he had to change parts of the novel to keep up with the news. A critic for Kirkus called the novel “an ambitious rendering of a forbidding future and the public and private challenges that will define it.” Markley’s book, published Tuesday by Simon & Schuster, follows a cast of characters reckoning with an America battered by climate change and political unrest. Stephen Markley stopped by Seth Meyers’ late night talk show to discuss his latest novel, The Deluge.
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