The Drowned World

Paperback | 1 December 1999 | Edition Number 2

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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.

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Here Ballard uses a fantastical landscape to analyse the corruptions of modern society, and the maze of the human mind. Violent solar storms have destroyed the earth's ionosphere, and as a result the earth has become a vast tropical swamp, humid, damp and fetid. The lost cities, now drowned, have created eerie lagoons, the buildings covered in silt, with huge trees growing out of them. It is the earth in a prehistoric state, a time of beasts, long before man, and a journey into the workings of the subconscious, the core of man's internal mindscape. (Kirkus UK)

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