The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard
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.
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.
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