Clive Simpson

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Journalist & Editor (space, environment & climate). Author of FLOOD WATERS DOWN - a grounded climate thriller set in the flooded Fens. Bookshops & online. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Waters-Down-Clive-Simpson/dp/1739737415/ref=sr_1_1

https://cliftop.co.uk/flood-waters-down/
The new climate thriller novel from journalist Clive Simpson - three copies of the book pictured on a grassy bank. It is being published on 9 April. Click on link to see a copy of the Advanced Info Sheet.

Indie publisher Cliftop Publishing will release the near-future eco-thriller Flood Waters Down by Sleaford-based journalist Clive A Simpson on 9 April 2026.

Set in the drowned fenlands of South Lincolnshire, the novel portrays a Britain reshaped by rising seas, systemic breakdown and the gradual expansion of AI governance.

Combining ecological realism with a distinctly Ballardian atmosphere, it adds a regional British perspective to the expanding climate fiction market.

Simpson, an international journalist specialising in space, climate and environmental reporting, drew inspiration from the 2013 east coast storm surge, which brought parts of Lincolnshire close to catastrophic flooding.

“At its heart, this is a story about how people respond when government and the systems built to protect them begin to fail,” he says.

Evocative, prophetic and fiercely human, Flood Waters Down is a powerful exploration of survival, resistance and moral reckoning in a world undone by climate collapse.