1st U.S. cloth edition of The Drowned World & 1st cloth edition of The Wind From Nowhere. The Wind from Nowhere, 1st published in '61 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories. The novel was the 1st of a series of Ballard novels dealing with scenarios of natural disaster, in this case seeing civilization reduced to ruins by prolonged worldwide hurricane force winds. As an added dimension he explores the ways in which disaster & tragedy can bond people together in ways that no normal experiences ever could. This, too, is a recurring theme in his works, making one of its 1st appearances here. Written in ten days, Ballard later dismissed this novel as a "piece of hackwork", referring instead to The Drowned World as his 1st novel. The Drowned World is a '62 science fiction novel by Ballard. In contrast to much post-apocalyptic fiction, the novel features a central character who, rather than being disturbed by the end of the old world, is enraptured by the chaotic reality that has come to replace it. The novel is an expansion of a novella with the same title published in Science Fiction Adventures magazine of 1/62, Vol. 4 No. 24 (Nova Publications).