The Drowned World

The Drowned World is a visionary masterpiece of climate catastrophe and psychological transformation. As rising temperatures melt the polar ice caps and cities sink beneath tropical lagoons, humanity retreats northward—while a few, irresistibly drawn inward, journey into the drowned remains of civilization. With hypnotic, dreamlike prose, Ballard shifts science fiction away from technology and toward the inner landscape, exploring memory, time, and humanity’s primal past. Haunting, surreal, and profoundly unsettling, The Drowned World is not merely a tale of apocalypse, but a meditation on evolution, identity, and the strange beauty of a world returning to its ancient beginnings.