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By Ian McEwan
Science Fiction
2014- A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.
2119- The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas.
Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem.