“The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known”

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2016
Secondary Title
Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond
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The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation.

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177-205
Published Date

2016

Publisher
Solaris
Place Published
Oxford, Eng.
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2016 Allan, Nina (b. 1966). “The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known.” Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 177-205. PSt

The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation. The female author has a master’s in literature from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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The female author (b. 1988) The female author has a master’s in literature from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.