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Cover blurb to the contrary, there is nothing “extraordinarily prophetic” about The Drowned World. Ballard's climate catastrophe is external; it arrives entirely outside mankind’s control. Solar storms—unpredictable, unpreventable—strip away the atmosphere, and the earth heats rapidly. Massive rivers of molten permafrost pour down from the north, essentially drowning Europe in mud. Humanity retreats to the poles as the earth’s flora and fauna rapidly devolve towards Triassic period norms. And ye
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Jan 05, 2025
Jelly
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