Robert Maitland, arquitecto de éxito, regresa a casa al volante de su Jaguar cuando un reventón lo lanza fuera de la autopista y lo deja atrapado en una isla de cemento, oculta entre carriles, taludes y puentes de Londres.
Mares, pantanos y lagunas cubren la mayor parte de la Tierra. El aumento de la temperatura ha propiciado un clima tropical, de manera que la flora y la fauna proliferan de forma extraordinaria y el mundo parece volver al Triásico. Los pocos humanos...
Con este relato fascinante sobre el frágil límite entre el deseo y la aniquilación, J. G. Ballard transporta al lector a uno de sus paisajes más inolvidables.
Para un extraño, los jubilados británicos que viven en la Costa del Sol española, en las residencias de Estrella de Mar, parecen miembros de una comunidad idílica, dedicada a actividades deportivas y culturales constantes, prop...
Tras sobrevivir a un violento accidente de tráfico cerca del aeropuerto de Londres, James Ballard conoce al enigmático doctor Robert Vaughan, antiguo rostro de la divulgación científica televisiva y ahora líder de un...
Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.
When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of...
"Terminal Atrocity Zone" examines a critical 7-year period in the work of author J G Ballard, ranging from 1966 to 1973. During this time, Ballard produced the series of "condensed novels" which would eventually form his book The Atrocity...
With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means...
This fast-paced narrative by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.
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...
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...
A story by the author of many novels with an instantly recognisable world of wrecked aeroplanes, drained swimming pools, concrete and sand dunes. His autobiographical novel of wartime Shangai,
The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this novel. The central character's dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and motorcar crash victims.
This is a wide-ranging collection of reviews and essays from one of the UK's most important and respected writers. The author has grouped his writings into subject headings, including the visual world, film, lives, writers, science, and autobiography....