The Drowned World is set post-global-warming, in a world where the polar ice caps are the only habitable places at a balmy 80 F. Dr. Kerans is charting the swamp as part of a survey unit, a pointless, ever-changing task, and the effects on him and his colleagues - of the heat, and the surroundings, and the company, and the wildlife - are intruiging. A good read, and one that I'm glad I got around to reading (I've had my eye on it for a while).I will admit that I somewhat rushed the last part of this book. I had just enough time to finish it before work if I read at a reasonably fast pace, and I didn't want to end up having to stop reading just thirty pages from the end, but I very much enjoyed the story nonetheless, possibly due to the amount of Frozen Planet I've been watching lately.
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