A review by mwx1010
The Drought by J.G. Ballard
3.0
The second (or third if you include The Wind From Nowhere) of Ballard’s disaster novels.
I’ve always thought this was a transitionary work. It has the imagery of The Drowned World but the plot is somewhat slighter and - as is often the case with Ballard - the characters are ciphers. This has a fairly clumsy overlay of The Tempest but it does feel like a retread of his previous work. I tend to look at this as Ballard practicing his craft building up to the urban collapse novels of the 1970s.
I’ve always thought this was a transitionary work. It has the imagery of The Drowned World but the plot is somewhat slighter and - as is often the case with Ballard - the characters are ciphers. This has a fairly clumsy overlay of The Tempest but it does feel like a retread of his previous work. I tend to look at this as Ballard practicing his craft building up to the urban collapse novels of the 1970s.