The Drought was initially published in 1964 as The Burning World. It was retitled as The Drought and published by Berkley Books in 1965. In the early 1960s, at the start of his career, author J.G. Ballard wrote a series of science fiction novels....

In the 1960s, the new age of technology seemed to create a level of paranoia amongst the population that led to a generalized fear of apocalypse; it is this post-apocalyptic future that British author J.G. Ballard sets his 1962 novel The Drowned...

Published in 1984 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Empire of the Sun is by eminent English writer J.G Ballard. The book is to some extent based on Ballard's service as a soldier in World War II, but is still most essentially...