The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard Fine Hardcover (1981) 1st Edition Trinity Books

Drowned World Jg Ballard. The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard Fine Hardcover (1981) 1st Edition Trinity Books Ballard's "The Drowned World" deals not with the immediate aftermath of a global calamity, but with the long-term psychiatric implications of such an event Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966)

They're buried under so much allegory that they lack surface-level believability or function The writing is spectacular, but the characters are too flat for my taste

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Set some eighty years after an increase in solar activity has rendered most of the earth a tropical swamp, Ballard explores. The Drowned World is a 1962 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by British author J.G Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition).

The Drowned World Science fiction novels, Sf masterworks, Dystopian novels. G." Ballard (15 November 1930 - 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist Set some eighty years after an increase in solar activity has rendered most of the earth a tropical swamp, Ballard explores.

Amazon The Drowned World (Everyman Fiction) Ballard, J. G. Science Fiction. When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights'. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient The Drowned World imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming has melted the ice caps.