Synopsis
Doctor Kerans is living in what is left of Londan after a solar event causes the poles to melt and flood the earth. Life quickly starts to adapt to conditions much like prehistoric earth. But most people try to preserve the life they knew.
History
First publication: Berkley, August 1962
Review
The expanded version of this novel adds a plot of conflict between Kerans and a madman, resulting in comparison to Heart of Darkness. Otherwise the story is still mostly Ballard’s awesome prose and the imaginative descriptions of a drowned earth. One of the earliest examples of climate fiction.
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere, hardcover, Doubleday/SFBC, 1965-03-00
The Drowned World, slipcased, Folio Society, 2013-00-00
The Drowned World, trade paperback, Gollancz / Orion, 2001-00-00
The Drowned World, hardcover, Dragon’s Dream, 1981-09-00
