J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films. Martin Amis is one of Britain's most prolific post-war writers and a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. His stories and essays explore the absurdity of the postmodern condition.
The Drowned World ought to be recognized as one of the pioneering
works of climate fiction...Writing during the era we believed most
fervently that the world was ours to mold and shape, Ballard warned
us that it wasn't.--Michael Christie "Guardian"
[The Drowned World] laid the groundwork for generations of
climate-change fiction to come.-- "New York Times"
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