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Robin,

I'm struggling to recall a Baxter novel where it all comes right in the end..

Also just happened upon your site ..I was looking for a review of Flood!

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Sorry, just googling through looking for something else, but I just have to say that this --

"this ark survive in space until receding waters allow a return to rebuild civilization"

-- is such an un-Baxterish thing to happen that I will eat my proverbial hat if it comes to pass. Ark will almost certainly be a generation ship story, and if Earth gets a look-in, it will be about further adaptation to the new environment, which is a perennial Baxter theme. (In fact I wouldn't put it past him to skip far enough into the future that the end of Ark is Flood in reverse -- that the waters do retreat, but in the process destroy the new water-adapted civilization that has developed there ...)

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