The Drowned World (Hardcover)

from lunacat

London is under water. In fact, the entire world is, except the Artic and Antarctic cirles. Robert Kerans, Bodkins and a team of military support are investigating the change in flora and fauna as the world progresses back to the Triassic period, complete with 140F temperatures and giant mosquito...

from overthemoon

A good, well-written and exciting read once I got into it, and quite topical because of global warming, which was not such an issue when the book was written in the early 1960s. It is set in an undetermined* future (a future seen from the 1960s - there is a Woolworths, communications in Morse, no...

from unclebob53703

Strange, increasingly hallucinatory post-apocalypse novel about a warming planet overrun with lagoons and exploding tropical plants and animals. The protagonist (and others) begin having nightmares which are described as racial memories of earlier times when these climatic conditions existed. A b...

from AnnieMod

The post apocalyptic genre is modern these days - everyone in the speculative fiction field seems to have an idea or three and the number of works being written is staggering. And most of those are concentrating on the cases where humanity brings the problems on its own. The roots of the genre ar...

from Parthurbook

Everything you've ever heard about Ballard's view of the world is here in his first novel: distopian, lyrical and prophetic - all from a man bringing up three children on his own in a semi-detached house in Middlesex. JGB uses rich language to conjour a vivd sense of a broken planet and the pull ...