The Drought - J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard's oeuvre has come to be associated with a certain type of dystopian near future in which human society is overcome either by the trepid forces of nature or some aspect of a technological modernity in which the main alienated characters wander around in bleak man-made landscapes. The Drought, first published in 1962, is one of the four first novels written by Ballard, all of which are variations on themes of natural disaster: The Wind from Nowhere, The Drought, The Drowned World and The Crystal World are all in many ways novels that seem much more prescient now than when they were first published during the 60s and 70s - well before the speculative but ...  Read the complete review