The Drought (The Burning World), J.G. Ballard

Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial waste, has left mankind in a life-or-death search for water. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the human race struggles for survival in a worldwide desert of despair. The Drought is the expanded version of the previously published Burning World (1964). Note that the exact original date of this book is not known by us. It was published in 1965.

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