The novel “The Wind from Nowhere” by J.G. Ballard was published for the first time in 1961 in two parts in the magazine “New Worlds Science Fiction” and in 1962 as a book.

When Dr. Donald Maitland returns home to his wife after finishing a job, he realizes that the wind is reaching an extraordinary force. What appears to be an anomalous event is just the beginning of a global phenomenon because all over the world the wind starts being so strong that it has increasingly destructive effects.

The British authorities are trying to set up a response to the growing danger of the wind but the only solution that appears viable around the world seems to move the survivors underground. The only exception is the construction of a pyramid strong enough to support the power of a wind that’s as destructive as none ever before.