Stone spring
by Stephen Baxter · first published 2010
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Such a prehistoric megastructure, a dyke to prevent the flooding of Doggerland in the North Sea, is the subject of the sci-fi novel "Stone Spring" by Stephen Baxter. This headline immediately reminded me of the book. I very much enjoyed reading this story and the two sequels, and I can fully recommend it!
on “Wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea 'may be Europe’s oldest megastructure'” ↗Maybe read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Spring if you like alternate history? :-)
on “Proposed dam to protect NL, DE, DK, SE from rising sea levels” ↗…more or less set in a slightly magical Early Modern Venice. The Laundry Files is strongly and deliberately in the middle ground of technology and magic, despite being ostensibly set in the present-day. Stone Spring is an alternate history set in the Stone Age, but is not substantially more ahistorical than a non-fantasy historical novel about a person who didn't exist in reality doing things that never actually…
on “My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before” ↗