Fire Over Troubled Water by Nick Marone. Part of the Drowned Earth series.
Six years after the Rise, Australia’s coastal towns are gone, lost under the ocean’s unstoppable advance.
The survivors have retreated to a series of newly formed islands off the coast of New South Wales, seeking to rebuild their lives with limited resources, destructive weather, and fierce competition amongst communities. And not all are successful...
Baz is a fresh water merchant, desalinating saltwater and bartering this valuable commodity throughout the struggling island communities. But his real mission is something closer to his heart, the one thing that has plagued him since the catastrophic rise in water levels: he must find his daughter and grandchildren.
While the rest of the country fights to stay alive, all Baz cares about is reuniting with the only family he has left. His greatest fear is that he’s already too late.
Science Fiction, Dystopian, Clifi
About The Author
Nick Marone is a science fiction author based in Australia.
He released his first story, the novella Fire Over Troubled Water, in 2019 as part of the eight-story Drowned Earth Series, published by Deadset Press.
He has published short fiction in Aurealis, Journeys: Aussie Speculative Fiction: Volume 2, Space and Time Magazine (forthcoming) and on his own website. His humorous science fiction novella, Space Trip, will be released in early 2021.
Nick also works at Andromeda Spaceways Magazine as a slush reader, proofreader, editor, and web manager, and has also worked for Aurealis in the past.
He is currently editing a novel manuscript, though it is not the first novel he has written. While doing all this, he somehow manages to study a master’s degree in editing and publishing at the University of Southern Queensland.
