
Title: The Burning World (The Drought)
Author: J.G. Ballard
Genre: Science Fiction
Year: 1964
There are no clouds in the sky, no rain, rivers and lakes are slowly but inexorably drying up. Earth’s population has been forced to move towards the ocean in search of water.
In this arid world, Dr Charles Ransom needs to find a way – and a place – to survive.