The novel “The Drowned World” by J.G. Ballard was published for the first time in 1962, the expansion of a novella published in a magazine.

Dr. Robert Kerans is a biologist who is part of an expedition sent to explore the area that used to be London decades ago. The former British capital has been partially submerged for a long time, transformed into a tropical lagoon by climate change. The expedition members start having strange dreams.

Going to the arctic regions, the only ones left where humans can live in conditions suitable for them, is the only possibility for anyone who lives between new seas and new tropical forests full of large reptiles and insects. Despite this, someone decides to go south. Robert Kerans is among the very few who decide to stay in London, but their tranquility is disturbed by a group of men who are looking for the old treasures of the city.