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A stylistic and cultural visionary, author J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) was famous for his brilliantly paranoid and outlandish depictions of worlds and characters locked in a bizarre obsessive relationships to technology. His science-fiction tales posed disturbing questions about our hypermodern reality, and his depictions of "normal life" felt as surreal as distant planets. A unique blend of Borges, Bradbury, and Burroughs, Ballard's short-stories continue to be one of the most prescient and unsettling visions of humanity. W.W. Norton's mammoth collection includes all of his short stories (nearly 100 in total), including such scandalous masterpieces as "Why I Want to [F**k] Ronald Reagan." The 1200-plus page collection includes an introduction by Martin Amis.
| Size | | Length: | 1199 pages | | Height: | 10.3 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 2.5 in | | Weight: | 59.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Each of J.G. Ballard's 98 short stories is like a dream more perfectly realized than any of your own. His personal vocabulary of scenarios imprints itself from the very first, each image with the quality of a newly minted archetype....Ultimately, Ballard is simply a master story writer--the maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective."
(09/13/2009)
"Ballard is, in truth, a literary surrealist, and his dreamlike narratives reveal a psychoanalytic intensity reminiscent of Kafka's more somber fables....In THE COMPLETE STORIES OF J.G. BALLARD devastated worlds are matched with even more devastated psyches. But these aren't simply 'myths of the near future,' they are probes sent down into the desolate heart of the here and now. As Ballard knew, reality has become just a subgenre of science fiction."
(09/20/2009)
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