The Burning World (novel)

"The Drought" redirects here. For other uses, see The Drought (disambiguation).

The Burning World
Cover of first edition (paperback)
Author	J. G. Ballard
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Berkley Books
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	160 pp

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.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to: The Burning World (novel)

The Terminal Collection: JG Ballard First Editions

Works by J. G. Ballard

Novels	The Wind from Nowhere (1961) The Drowned World (1962) The Burning World (1964) The Crystal World (1966) The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) Crash (1973) Concrete Island (1974) High-Rise (1975) The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) Hello America (1981) Empire of the Sun (1984) The Day of Creation (1987) Running Wild (1988) The Kindness of Women (1991) Rushing to Paradise (1994) Cocaine Nights (1996) Super-Cannes (2000) Millennium People (2003) Kingdom Come (2006)

Short stories	"Mobile" (1957) "The Concentration City" (1957) "Track 12" (1958) "Zone of Terror" (1960) "The Sound-Sweep" (1960) "The Voices of Time" (1960) "Studio 5, The Stars" (1961) "Deep End" (1961) "Mr F. is Mr F." (1961) "Billennium" (1962) "Minus One" (1963) "The Recognition" (1967) " The Day of Forever" (1967) "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (1968) "Venus Smiles" (1971)

Short story collections	The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962) Billennium (1962) Passport to Eternity (1963) The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (1963) The Terminal Beach (1964) The Impossible Man (1966) The Overloaded Man (1967) The Disaster Area (1967) The Day of Forever (1967) Vermilion Sands (1971) Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971) Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976) The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977) The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978) The Venus Hunters (1980) Myths of the Near Future (1982) The Voices of Time (1985) Memories of the Space Age (1988) War Fever (1990) The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006) The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 (2006)

Essays, reviews and interviews	A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996) Extreme Metaphors (2012)

Autobiography	Miracles of Life (2008)

Film adaptations	When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) Crash! (1971) Empire of the Sun (1987) Crash (1996) The Atrocity Exhibition (2001) Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002) High-Rise (2015)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, February 10, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.