Language English Pages 160 pp Country United Kingdom | Publication date 1964 Originally published 1964 Publisher Berkley Books | |
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Genres Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy Similar J G Ballard books, Drought books, Science Fiction books | ||
The Burning World is a 1964 science fiction novel by British author J. G. Ballard. An expanded version, retitled The Drought, was first published in 1965 by Jonathan Cape.
Plot
In contrast to Ballard's earlier novel The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world in which water is scarce. After an extensive drought, rivers have turned to trickles and the earth to dust, causing the world's populations to head toward the oceans in search of water. The drought is caused by industrial waste flushed into the ocean, which form an oxygen-permeable barrier of saturated long-chain polymers that prevents evaporation and destroys the precipitation cycle.
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