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Inside Burn the Water: Billy Ray’s Bold Leap Into Dystopian Fiction
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Screenwriter Billy Ray is best-known for his work as the Oscar-nominated and critically acclaimed screenwriter behind Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games, and the highly anticipated adaptation of Sunrise on the Reaping. He has now written his first novel, BURN THE WATER, which is the first installment of an epic dystopian duology. Ray delivers a searing reimagining of Romeo and Juliet, set in a drowned London in the year 2425. London's been ravaged by climate change and centuries of war, decaying skyscrapers and more. It's a tale of enemies-to-lovers, this young adult novel set in a future, flooded London where two rival factions, the Crowns and the Rogues, are at war over the remaining dry land.
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