phae rated The Drowned World: 4 stars

The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a new Triassic Age of unendurable heat. …
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Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a new Triassic Age of unendurable heat. …
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The first couple of chapters are fine and short and common sense, but the rest is fluff.
WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart.
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. …
It's very good. I was defending myself and individualism in my own mind as I started reading it, and had all those defenses challenged by the time I'd finished, which felt like a valuable lesson in itself, if somewhat unmooring.
A couple times, I thought I'd accidentally flipped back a page or two, and was reading something for the second time but it was just the same story or point being re-written, so the editing could have been a little tighter for my tastes.