First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of'Empire of the Sun','Crash'and'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.
With eighteen novels over four decades - from'The Drowned World'in 1962 to his final novel'Kingdom Come'in 2006 - J.G. Ballard is known as one of Britain's most celebrated and original novelists.
However,during his long career he was also a prolific writer of short stories; in fact,many people consider that he is at his best in the short-story format. These highly influential stories have appeared in magazines such as New Worlds,Amazing Stories and Interzone,and in several separate collections,including'The Terminal Beach','The Venus Hunters','Vermilion Sands','Low-Flying Aircraft'and'Myths of the Near Future'.
Set out in the original order of publication and frequently the point of conception for ideas he further developed in his novels,these stories provide an unprecedented opportunity to see the imagination of one of Britain's greatest writers at work. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works,featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Robert Macfarlane,Iain Sinclair,James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007242290Number of pages: 784Weight: 550 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 50 mm
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'More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting,cogent and individual imaginations in contemporary literature'William Boyd
'A marvel...there is something a little shaming in reading Ballard: you have to face the fact that there exist writers with such fresh imaginations they can't write five pages without stumbling on an alternate world'Zadie Smith
'Simply a master story writer - the maker of unforgettable artefacts in words'Jonathan Lethem
'Indispensable...probably the most original English writer of the last century'China Miéville
J. G. Ballard
A visionary writer of eerily prophetic dystopias,JG Ballard forged a distinctive style from his early days penning science fiction short stories through his provocative allegories such as High Rise and Crash and the eloquent war novels Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women.
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