The Drowned World
by J.G. Ballard
published by Harper Perennial in 1962read by Agamedes in April 2009
science fiction
Two main themes. (1) A badly dated view of civilisation crumbling under stress. The villain is white (very white) and holds the girl hostage in the hope that she will fall for him. His henchmen are black and do a lot of black sambo dancing. (2) A hard to believe view that Earth heating up will cause people’s minds to revert to something-zoic non-thinking, causing them to travel towards the too hot for human life equator. Sanders of the jungle meets pseudo-Freud of the post apocalypse.
Agamedes rating: 3 out of 10
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