The Day of Creation

The Day of Creation is a 1987 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard.

The Day of Creation
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
AuthorJ. G. Ballard
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherVictor Gollancz Ltd
Publication date
1987
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages254 pp
ISBN0-575-04152-8
OCLC17918501
823/.914 19
LC ClassPR6052.A46 D38 1987

Plot summary

The main character of the novel is the World Health Organization doctor John Mallory[1] who, six months after his arrival in Central Africa, finds that intense guerrilla activity has left him without patients. He devotes himself, instead, to the task of bringing water to the region, with dreams of setting the Sahara in flower. When he accidentally manages to achieve his task by creating a river,[2] he becomes prey of an increasingly delirious spiral of fantasies, starting to identify himself with the new river that he has dubbed "Mallory". Obsessed, he decides to go up the river in order to "kill" its source, together with a teenaged African girl, whom he considers a sort of spirit of the waters, and other characters including a half-blind British documentary filmmaker and two ruthless local chieftains trying to take advantage of the new prosperity brought by the water.

gollark: The problems with this are basically just held off by... I'm not actually sure.
gollark: But it's now possible to know exactly where everyone is and read most of their communication, unless they take active steps to prevent it.
gollark: Well, yes.
gollark: Or punished lots.
gollark: It's quite plausible that if actually *fully enforced*, the laws of many countries would result in close to their entire populations being imprisoned.

References
  1. "JG Ballard Interviewed by Michelle Field about Day of Creation". www.jgballard.ca.
  2. "Authors : Ballard, J G : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com.
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