Water world

The prose of James Graham Ballard (b. 1930), while remaining essentially science fiction, has long since taken its place in the pantheon of High Literature.
The ghostly landscapes of his disaster novels are clothed in a polished form, the adventures of the heroes turn into a risky odyssey, on the verge of clairvoyance and madness.
Ballard is an experimenter, a surrealist, a researcher of "inner space". Jung and Camus, Ernst and Dali, Aldis and Burroughs are secret or obvious co-authors of his books, which were filmed at various times by Steven Spielberg and Cronenberg.