Online Reading The Drowned World

The Drowned World - 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 transformedboth physically and psychologicallyby this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darknesscomplete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiersthis "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.


Online Reading The Drowned World

Book Details

⚡️Book Title : The Drowned World
⚡Book Author : J.G. Ballard
⚡Page : 198 pages
⚡Published May 20th 2013 by Liveright (first published June 30th 1962)

The Drowned World

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 transformedboth physically and psychologicallyby this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darknesscomplete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiersthis "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.