At night, Richard Mason hears an ancient sea outside his house, a sea that has not existed for a thousand, thousand years; eventually, he is drawn to it.
Off-shore, the deeper swells of the open sea surged across the roofs of the submerged houses, the white-caps cleft by the spurs of isolated chimnies.

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  1. “Now Wakes the Sea” by J. G. Ballard, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1963.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by J. G. Ballard