C. M. Kornbluth & Frederik Pohl 3 hr 12 min read

A hurricane and its floods tear through a Northeastern town that thought it was safe, a disaster novel by two SF masters.

This 1955 collaboration by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (authors of 'The Space Merchants') is a contemporary catastrophe novel, torn from headlines, that drops the reader into the heart of the flood country as ordinary people fight to survive when the water rises. Less science fiction than a taut, humane study of a community under disaster. Read it for gripping crisis-fiction from two of the sharpest minds the genre produced.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 12 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).