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J.G. Ballard Millennium People (Unabridged)
Markham, seeking the truth behind Laura's death, is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control....
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<I>The Complete Short Stories</I> of JG Ballard are required reading for all connoisseurs of Ballard's writing. This compilation brings together 96 short stories drawn from previous collections of Ballard's short stories, including <I>The Voices of Time</I> and <I>War Fever</I>, as well as four previously uncollected stories. The result is an exhilarating overview of Ballard's development as a short-story writer, from the singing orchids of Vermilion Sands in <I>Prima Belladonna</I>, completed in 1956, to the millennial anxieties of <I>Report from an Obscure Planet</I>, written in 1992. <p> <I>The Complete Short Stories</I> confirm Ballard's stature as a craftsman of the short story, which often suits his surreal brilliance above and beyond later novels such as <I>Cocaine Nights</I> and <I>Super-Cannes</I> ;. In his Introduction, Ballard reflects, the short story is coined from precious metal, a glint of gold that will glow for ever in the deep purse of your imagination. Time and again, whether exploring the furthest reaches of science fiction, or the banal surrealism of English suburban life, Ballard's perverse insight lodges itself in your imagination, as he explores and often punctures what he refers to as that over-worked hologram called reality. This collection will delight devotees, but it will also allow readers new to Ballard to experience a short-story writer of the stature of Borges, Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Vintage Crash
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Flamingo Empire of the Sun
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Flamingo A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews
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Flamingo Cocaine Nights
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Flamingo The Drought (1960s A S.)
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PerfectBound The Unlimited Dream Company
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Flamingo Running Wild
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HarperPerennial The Drowned World
This torrid, powerful 1962 novel--the 17th of Millennium's very strong SF Masterworks classic reprints--was a major turning point in J.G. Ballard's career. In this future our old world has been gradually drowned as global warming melts the ice-caps and primordial jungles and swamps have returned to tropical London, recreating the ancient ecology of the Triassic age. According to the logic of Ballardian inner space, these Turkish-bath surroundings evoke the psychological suction of the deep past, calling the human hindbrain back to the enfolding warmth of the womb. The text is rich with dreamy phrases like the fata morgana of the terminal lagoon and the brighter day of the interior, archaeopsychic sun. As various members of an expedition to London busy themselves with more or less futile schemes like draining Leicester Square in hope of loot, the passive central character Kerans moves in his own neuronic odyssey to a strange acceptance of and assimilation by this lushly transformed world, vanishing into a final epiphany of heat and light. There is little narrative drive or sense of story (fans of rip-roaring, action-adventure SF tend not to get on with Ballard). <I>The Drowned World</I> is a potent, sensual mood-piece--static, jewelled and unforgettable. --<I>David Langford</I>
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Flamingo The Kindness of Women
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Flamingo Rushing to Paradise
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HarperCollins Empire of the Sun
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Vintage Myths of the Near Future
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Fourth Estate Kingdom Come
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Flamingo The Drought (Paladin Books)
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Flamingo The Day of Creation (Flamingo Modern Classic)
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Flamingo The Crystal World (Flamingo Modern Classic)
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HarperPerennial Empire of the Sun (Harper Perennial Modern Classics S.)
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Flamingo Super-Cannes
JG Ballard covers familiar territory in <I>Super-Cannes</I> ;: new social structures under pressure, new psychopathologies to be explored. As he did in his previous novel <I>Cocaine Nights</I>, he has avoided the more abstract imagery and plot of <I>Rushing to Paradise</I> or <I>The Day of Creation</I> to create, on the surface, a more mainstream novel, clearly concerned with modern issues of racism, random violence and sexuality. But familiar territory is always the most deeply subversive place in a Ballard novel. <p> Eden-Olympia is more than a mere business park. It is an expensive and intense hive, the modern Dream Palace of a new elite of administrators, enarques and scientific entrepreneurs; its aim, to turn Provence into Europe's silicon valley. Paul Sinclair finds himself with time on his hands in this radical environment when his young wife takes a job at Eden-Olympia. She replaces a doctor who killed 10 executives with a rifle before shooting himself. He left no note and no explanation. Sinclair finds himself living in the same house and learning some of the same lessons as the killer. <p> There are the (un)usual Ballardian motifs; the injured airman, the swimming pools, the cars, the voyeuristic sex and violence, the perverse personal iconography of the central characters (the hothouse social environment even harks back to <I>High-Rise</I> from 1975), but in this new context they are even more profoundly unsettling than before. The apparently slick, professional characters are flawed and ambiguous, while strange events, as in the outstanding novella <I>Running Wild</I> from 1988, lead to extreme conclusions. Ballard is an expert in explaining how what at first appears perverse, amoral or simply wrong, is actually obvious, sensible and sane, and then going even further. From the beginning, the clues are all there. Eventually, both Sinclair and the reader are clear on what must be done. --<I>John Shire</I>
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HarperPerennial Millennium People
The peasants, goes a tedious old joke about Wat Tyler's mob, are revolting. In JG Ballard's unnerving, prophetic novel <I>Millennium People</I>, however, it's the middle classes that are staging the revolution: blowing up the NFT, burning their books and defaulting on their maintenance charges. Rejecting, in short, everything that they've worked so hard for--The Bonfire of the Volvos, as one rather droll chapter heading has it. <p> At the forefront of this petit bourgeois insurrection are the occupants of Fulham's Chelsea Marina, (as ever with Ballard) an exclusive housing community. Led by the charismatic Dr Richard Gould, a disgraced paediatrician turned Doctor Moreau of the Chelsea set, Marina residents Kay Churchill, a former film lecturer; civil servant Vera Britain and Stephen Dexter, the parish vicar and an injured airman (another Ballard perennial) have unleashed an arson campaign against targets deemed suitably middle class. <p> David Markham, a psychiatrist and the book's steely narrator, is drawn into the Marina's inner circle after his ex-wife Laura is killed in an apparently meaningless bomb attack at Heathrow airport, (prime Ballard territory, of course). Meaningless is the insistent motif: Markham's current wife Sally was crippled in a freak accident and the murder of a banal if inoffensive television presenter (loosely modelled on Jill Dando) is one of the seemingly random violent acts unleashed by Gould, precisely because of their apparent randomness. The absence of rational motive, as he says, carries a significance of its own. <p> A master of sustained unease, Ballard has again excelled in fashioning a gripping, psychologically disturbing novel, that, like <I>High Rise</I> or <I>Super-Cannes</I> ;, is part cultural analysis and part surreal social prediction. --<I>Travis Elborough</I>
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Flamingo The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated (Flamingo Modern Classics)
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, JG Ballard still lives far ahead of his time. Called his prophetic masterpiece by many, <I>The Atrocity Exhibition</I> practically lies outside of any literary tradition. Part science fiction, part eerie historical fiction, part pornography, its characters adhere to no rules of linearity or stability. This reissued edition features an introduction by William S Burroughs, extensive text commentary by Ballard and four additional stories. Of specific interest are the illustrations by underground cartoonist and professional medical illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner. Her ultra-realistic images of eroticism and destruction add an important dimension to Ballard's text. --<I>Joaquim della Mirandella</I>
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Vintage Concrete Island
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Flamingo Millennium People
The peasants, goes a tedious old joke about Wat Tyler's mob, are revolting. In JG Ballard's unnerving, prophetic novel <I>Millennium People</I>, however, it's the middle classes that are staging the revolution: blowing up the NFT, burning their books and defaulting on their maintenance charges. Rejecting, in short, everything that they've worked so hard for--The Bonfire of the Volvos, as one rather droll chapter heading has it. <p> At the forefront of this petit bourgeois insurrection are the occupants of Fulham's Chelsea Marina, (as ever with Ballard) an exclusive housing community. Led by the charismatic Dr Richard Gould, a disgraced paediatrician turned Doctor Moreau of the Chelsea set, Marina residents Kay Churchill, a former film lecturer; civil servant Vera Britain and Stephen Dexter, the parish vicar and an injured airman (another Ballard perennial) have unleashed an arson campaign against targets deemed suitably middle class. <p> David Markham, a psychiatrist and the book's steely narrator, is drawn into the Marina's inner circle after his ex-wife Laura is killed in an apparently meaningless bomb attack at Heathrow airport, (prime Ballard territory, of course). Meaningless is the insistent motif: Markham's current wife Sally was crippled in a freak accident and the murder of a banal if inoffensive television presenter (loosely modelled on Jill Dando) is one of the seemingly random violent acts unleashed by Gould, precisely because of their apparent randomness. The absence of rational motive, as he says, carries a significance of its own. <p> A master of sustained unease, Ballard has again excelled in fashioning a gripping, psychologically disturbing novel, that, like <I>High Rise</I> or <I>Super-Cannes</I> ;, is part cultural analysis and part surreal social prediction. --<I>Travis Elborough</I>
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Manchester University Press J.G. Ballard (Contemporary British Novelists S.)
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Manchester University Press J.G. Ballard (Contemporary British Novelists S.)
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Flamingo The Complete Short Stories
<I>The Complete Short Stories</I> of JG Ballard are required reading for all connoisseurs of Ballard's writing. This compilation brings together 96 short stories drawn from previous collections of Ballard's short stories, including <I>The Voices of Time</I> and <I>War Fever</I>, as well as four previously uncollected stories. The result is an exhilarating overview of Ballard's development as a short-story writer, from the singing orchids of Vermilion Sands in <I>Prima Belladonna</I>, completed in 1956, to the millennial anxieties of <I>Report from an Obscure Planet</I>, written in 1992. <p> <I>The Complete Short Stories</I> confirm Ballard's stature as a craftsman of the short story, which often suits his surreal brilliance above and beyond later novels such as <I>Cocaine Nights</I> and <I>Super-Cannes</I> ;. In his Introduction, Ballard reflects, the short story is coined from precious metal, a glint of gold that will glow for ever in the deep purse of your imagination. Time and again, whether exploring the furthest reaches of science fiction, or the banal surrealism of English suburban life, Ballard's perverse insight lodges itself in your imagination, as he explores and often punctures what he refers to as that over-worked hologram called reality. This collection will delight devotees, but it will also allow readers new to Ballard to experience a short-story writer of the stature of Borges, Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Vintage Vermilion Sands
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RE/Search Publications Quotes
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Flamingo The Disaster Area
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Liverpool University Press The Angle Between Two Walls: Fiction of J.G. Ballard (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)
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RE/Search Publications J.G. Ballard: Conversations
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Gagosian Gallery Elusive Truth, The: Exhibition Catalogue
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