Name: The Drowned World
Rating: 3.333333333333333 (24 reviews)

J. G. Ballard

First work concerns an increase in the sun's heat which turns much of the world into the Triassic Age topography. In the second, the earth is afflicted by a wind of ever increasing velocity.

And The Wind from Nowhere

The Drowned World

In the 21st century, fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ide-caps to melt and the seas to rise. Global temperatures have climbed, and civilization has retreated to the Arctic and Antarctic circles. London is a city now inundated by a primeval swamp, to which an expedition travels to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age.This early novel by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is at once a fast paced narrative, a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a speculative foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.

Sarah Sammis

Link+ due 7/10/12

Thematically it's somewhere between On The Beach and Quatermas and the Pit. The world destruction, this time, is global warming and thus global flooding. 

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This fast-paced narrative by the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun' is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.

The drowned world

Sabine Delorme

JG Ballards “The Drowned World” stand schon eine Weile auf meiner Leseliste, hatte es aber bislang nicht. Und wo finde ich dieses – ok etwas mitgenommene Exemplar? – in LAOS (!) in einem klitzekleinen Laden in dem man das weltbeste “Morning Glory” essen konnte. Das lag da schon eine Weile und ich durfte es gerne mitnehmen.

Wo läßt sich “The Drowned World” besser lesen, als im schwül-warmen Südostasien? Die Geschichte spielt in London, die Polarkappen sind geschmolzen, die Welt fast komplett abgesoffen und die Zivilisation so gut wie hin. Brennendes Sonnenlicht mit unglaublichen Temperaturen machen es nahezu unmöglich zu überleben. Unglaublich das diese Geschichte bereits 1962 geschrieben wurde, als noch kein Mensch von Klimawandel gesprochen hat.

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yasi

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’.

The Drowned World And The Wind from Nowhere

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