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Title	:	The Drowned World
Author	:	J.G. Ballard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	50th Anniversary
Pages	:	Pages: 198 pages
Published	:	May 20th 2013 by Liveright (first published June 30th 1962)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Dystopia

The Drowned World

J.G. Ballard

Paperback | Pages: 198 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 13211 Users | 924 Reviews

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First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed—both physically and psychologically—by this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness—complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers—this "powerful and beautifully clear" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.

Mention Books Conducive To The Drowned World

Original Title:	The Drowned World
ISBN:	0871403625 (ISBN13: 9780871403629)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Robert Kerans, Beatrice Dahl, Colonel Riggs, Dr. Alan Bodkin, Lieutenant Hardman, Strangman
Setting:	London, England

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'Nothing endures so long as fear."J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World I promise God. I promise I've learned my lesson. I'll review these books sooner. I loved this book, dear God, but now I have to go back to my lizard brain memory to recall why. Oh, yeah, because nobody figured out our 21st-Century global clusterfuckery as early in the 1960s as J.G. Ballard (ok, perhaps PKD, or Pynchon). He seemed to be writing our nightmares now 50+ years ago. It is hard to read this and not feel

Dull plotting.Duller psychology.Shallow characters.Improbable coincidences galore.Pretty racist.And yet almost entirely saved by some great descriptive work in painting the submerged world.Worth reading, barely.

The Drowned World: Diving into the pellucid depths of our racial memoriesOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureThe Drowned World (1962) is J.G. Ballards best apocalyptic work, the other two being The Burning World (1964) and The Crystal World (1966), but if you are thinking of an action-packed adventure where a plucky group of survivors clings to decency amid the collapse of civilization, this is the wrong book. Ballard was interested in inner space, and while he sometimes adopted SF tropes in

The problem with writing a racially-charged tale of madness and death, lost deep in an alien and antagonistic jungle is that you're going to draw comparisons to 'Heart of Darkness', and that's not a comparison from which many novelists are going to emerge unscathed. The white men lose themselves in the brutality of the primordial past, going 'native', or even beyond native, but Ballard cannot match the furious voice or psychological insights of Conrad.Ballard distinguishes himself as a competent

The Drowned World is one of four novels J. G. Ballard wrote about the same time about the environment. Published in 1962, it seems prophetic, in that it proposes that global warming would melt the polar ice caps, and the resulting raised sea level would drown cities. One interesting thing about the book is that the cause as Ballard has it in this book is that solar stormsknown to affect Earth weatherbecome so severe that they scorch the planet. This theory roughly aligns with the current 1% (or

Goodbye to All ThatThe end of the British Empire was not a sudden event, more a slow burn over decades. For many around the world, its progress was masked by the rather more terrifying facts of the Cold War and its potential for the destruction of life on Earth. Nonetheless the disintegration of the Empire was not without its loss, in the opinion of some, to global culture. But how to express such a sentiment without jingoistic intimations of sour grapes? A fiction about the effects of global

Dear Kerans, Here's an idea - go up to Hampstead. It'll be dry there and you can walk about.The first couple of chapters of this book are quite intriguing, but as soon as you realise that this is central London and the buildings aren't even fully submerged, you know that the rest of Britain IS STILL THERE. So why is everyone acting like the world has been drowned? Didn't JG Ballard have the first notion of physical geography? DUH! Schoolboy error. When London drowns, you can say goodbye to East