J.G. Ballard: Quotes
 a quotable quotient of quotes: "jg ballards: quotes" is a book of maxims, aphorisms, statements, and glibly profound comments from the mouth and pen of the perspicacious jg ballard. if you are at all interested in the theories of a modern [... more]
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Rushing to Paradise: A Novel
An important book about Political Correctness.: An extremely important work and one that should be read by anyone interested in the uses of Political Correctness for repression. In ordinary circumstances a person like Dr. Barbara would either remain [... more]
$15.00
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Super-Cannes
Brilliant Slow Burn Ballard: This book's story is told through the eyes of an english pilot (Paul Sinclair) who is recovering from knee injuries and unable to fly. The book begins with Paul accompanying his young wife Jane to Eden-Olympia - a semmingly [... more]
$26.25
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Super-Cannes: A Novel
Brilliant Slow Burn Ballard: This book's story is told through the eyes of an english pilot (Paul Sinclair) who is recovering from knee injuries and unable to fly. The book begins with Paul accompanying his young wife Jane to Eden-Olympia - a semmingly [... more]
$16.00
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The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
Food for Thought: Ballard is one of the great "conceptualizers" of modern literature. The premises of his stories are the most immediately striking thing about them. Sometimes the story doesn't live up to the expectations he creates, but this [... more]
$16.00
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The Crystal World
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ILLUMINATED MAN: Owing more than a passing salute toward Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, J. G. Ballard's THE CRYSTAL WORLD also resembles a more obscure work by one David Lindsay, A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS. Just as in Conrad's masterpiece, [... more]
$14.00
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Super-Cannes: A Novel
Brilliant Slow Burn Ballard: This book's story is told through the eyes of an english pilot (Paul Sinclair) who is recovering from knee injuries and unable to fly. The book begins with Paul accompanying his young wife Jane to Eden-Olympia - a semmingly [... more]
$24.00
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A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews
Ballardophile: Ballard describes this collection of published essays and reviews as a continuation of his fiction "by surreptitious means". Those accustomed to Ballard's imaginative gifts will be pleased to discover them no less diminished in [... more]
$15.00
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Cocaine Nights
Amazon.com Review: When travel writer Charles Prentice arrives at Estrella de Mar, a resort town near Gibraltar populated primarily by British retirees, to find out why his brother Frank has been jailed, he's shocked to find that Frank has confessed to a [... more]
$23.00
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Cocaine Nights
Amazon.com Review: When travel writer Charles Prentice arrives at Estrella de Mar, a resort town near Gibraltar populated primarily by British retirees, to find out why his brother Frank has been jailed, he's shocked to find that Frank has confessed to a [... more]
$17.95
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Concrete Island: A Novel
More a Writing Exercise Than a Story: This is a modernized update on the Robinson Crusoe story, which accomplishes next to nothing in theme or plot development. Ballard has used the premise as an exercise in man-against-nature and man-against-self [... more]
$13.00
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Millennium People
Still at (or near) the Peak of his Powers: Just about finished with the English version of Millennium People. (Since there's no translation involved, why does an English book like this take so long to come out in America? Does it really take a year to [... more]
$16.50
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