Bestselling novelist Stephen Markley’s 2023 epic, “The Deluge,” follows the climate crisis, extreme politics and societal decline in the United States from the years 2013 to 2039 through the eyes of everyone from a climate scientist to a drug addict, an advertising savant and a network of eco-terrorists. But its most cinematically dramatic chapter describes … Continue reading A Novelist Imagined a Climate-Driven Wildfire Burning LA, Then Watched It Happen