![]() ![]() He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. While others drain the submerged streets in search of treasure, Dr Robert Kerans - part of a group of intrepid scientists - comes to accept this submarine city and finds himself strangely resistant to the idea of saving it.įirst published in 1962, Ballard’s mesmerising and ferociously imaginative novel gained him widespread critical acclaim and established his reputation as one of Britain’s finest writers of science fiction. ![]() Some flee the capital others remain to pursue reckless schemes, in the name of science and profit. ![]() London is a swamp lush tropical vegetation grows up the walls of the Ritz and primeval reptiles are sighted, swimming through the newly formed lagoons. 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.įluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a new Triassic Age of unendurable heat. ![]()
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