The Death of Grass
by John Christopher | 
The Inverted World
by Christopher Priest | 
The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham | 
Blackfish City
by Sam J. Miller | 
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham | 
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany | 
Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart | 
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson | 
Level 7
by Mordecai Roshwald | 
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
by J. G. Ballard | 
Julian Comstock
by Robert Charles Wilson | 
Aftermath
by Levar Burton |
The Long Winter
by John Christopher | 
Edenborn
by Nick Sagan | 
The Postman
by David Brin | 
Camp Concentration
by Thomas M. Disch | 
Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny | 
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin | 
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
by Philip K. Dick | 
The Gate to Women's Country
by Sheri S. Tepper |
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed--both physically and psychologically--by this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness--complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers--this "powerful and beautifully clear" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.