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When London is lost under the growing tides, unconscious wants rush to the surface in this apocalyptic story from the writer of Crash and Cocaine Nights. Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the snow caps, sending the planet into a new Triassic Get older of unendurable warmth. London is a swamp; lush tropical vegetation matures the surfaces of the Ritz and primeval reptiles are sighted, going swimming through the recently shaped lagoons. Some flee the capital; others stay to go after reckless strategies, in the name of research and profit. While some drain the submerged roads in search of treasure, Dr Robert Kerans - part of several intrepid researchers - involves accept this submarine city and confirms himself strangely protected to the thought of saving it. First posted in 1962, Ballard's mesmerising and ferociously imaginative novel gained him widespread critical acclaim and set up his reputation as you of Britain's finest freelance writers of research fiction. J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his daddy was a entrepreneur. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family came back to England in 1946. He posted his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 best seller Empire of the Sunshine gained the Guardian Fiction Award and the Wayne Tait Black color Memorial Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Award. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Wonders of Life was posted in 2008. J.G. Ballard perished in '09 2009.
