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J. G. Ballard (Hardcover)
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J. G. Ballard (Hardcover)
Series: Modern Masters of Science Fiction
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Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal
World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New
Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he
explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and
biology and shaped by surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's
combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even
legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of
the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first
career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new,
if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral
ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise
doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the
characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines
Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his
fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within
SF itself.
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