A review by jgwc54e5
The Wind from Nowhere by J.G. Ballard

3.0

This is JG Ballard’s first novel and while it has some of the features of Ballardian fiction it’s a bit of a disappointing read. The author himself dismissed it as “a piece of hack work.” It’s a disaster movie with even a crazy rich megalomaniac. A wind is felt all round the earth in the one direction, slightly stronger at the equator than as you get closer to the poles. A few characters are followed as the disaster increases and they’re ordinary people reacting in ordinary ways to the extreme events happening around them. It was a fast read but I won’t be spending days thinking about it like with so much of his other work.