Introducing
The JG Ballard Book
, an oversized collection of articles, ideas, interviews, insights and a travelogue... as well as uniquely featuring hi-rez reproductions of over 60 pages of handwritten and typed letters from JG Ballard himself. The JG Ballard Book is 192 (count 'em) full-colour large format pages of fun and fascinating insights into "The Seer of Shepperton" -- his life, his work and his planar intersections. The JG Ballard Book features contributions from some well-known denizens of the Ballardian universe:
Toby Litt
suggests Ballard's political ideology may be as inverted as his plots;
David Pringle
offers up his thoughtful 1984 interview, "JG Ballard: Psychoanalyst of the Electronic Age";
Michael Bonsall
cuts it open with "JG Ballard in the Dissecting Room";
Michael Holliday
stitches together all the disconnected
Atrocity Exhibition
bits in "Desperate Measures: A History of
The Atrocity Exhibition
"; seminal Ballard bibliographer
James Goddard
contributes actual Ballard documents from his extensive collection, a total of 56 pages of Ballard's handwritten text, interview corrections, lists and more from JGB's intense and experimental late 1960s and 1970s;
Rick Poynor
paints a picture of how Ballard has been treated by the visual media in "What Does JG Ballard Look Like?";
Sam Francis
, fresh from his acclaimed study,
The Psychological Fictions of JG Ballard
, amuses us with an unpublished 2005 Ballard interview; Prof
Peter Brigg
clocks in with "JG Ballard: Time Out of Mind";
Jordi Costa
, the creative force behind the JGB exhibition in Barcelona, takes a big screen look with "Ballardoscope: Some Attempts at Approaching the Writer as a Visionary";
Paul A. Green
amazingly paints a pure Ballard pastiche with "The Impossibility Exhibition"; and
Rick McGrath
re-imagines his 2007 journey to Shanghai to visit the few remains of JG Ballard's youth in the "wicked city", with original letters, maps and drawings by Ballard. The book features original cover art by
Luca del Baldo
and 10 delicious photographs by
Ana Barrado
. The JG Ballard Book is a large format, full-colour, must-have collection for any Ballard fan!