β Scribed by AA. VV.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time on Man. The world is warming and seas are rising. We may deny it, but we canβt hide when the water comes. Already the streets of Miami flood regularly and Mick Jones looks more and more prescient when he sang that βLondon is drowning and I, I live by the river!β all those years ago. And yet water is life. It brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises in its place. There has always been romance and adventure in the streets of a drowned London or on gorgeous sailing cities spanning a submerged world, sleek ships exploring as land gets ever rarer. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise, good or bad. Here youβll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballardβs The Drowned World, Sterlingβs Islands in the Net, and Rymanβs The Child Garden. Stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all.
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SUMMARY: "Fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the icecaps to melt and the seas to rise. Nature is on the rampage. London has been transformed into a primeval swamp, and within its submerged landscape giant lizards, dragonflies and insects compete for dominance. Human fertility is in declin
SUMMARY: "Fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the icecaps to melt and the seas to rise. Nature is on the rampage. London has been transformed into a primeval swamp, and within its submerged landscape giant lizards, dragonflies and insects compete for dominance. Human fertility is in declin
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. Set in the near future, the ice caps have melted and the planet basks in an unendurable heat. London is a primordial swamp; lush tropical vegeta
### Review This is a fascinating read, for it prefigures many of the themes that pervade the author's subsequent books: planetary/ecological disaster, entropy, the devolution of human nature, a preoccupation with the roots of violence. For those unfamiliar with Ballard, it's a good introduction --
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.Fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ice-caps to melt and the seas to rise. London has been transformed into a primeval swamp, and wit