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Crash by J G Ballard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the ...Show more
Empire Of The Sun by J G Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Based o ...Show more
Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics) by J G Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come..Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in ...Show more
High-Rise by J G Ballard
$31.95 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on enemy floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create ...Show more
The Atrocity Exhibition - Annotated by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics
The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character's dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown. Seek ...Show more
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard by Anthony (INT) J. G.; Burgess Ballard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our com ...Show more
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a n ...Show more
The Drowned World by J G Ballard
$26.95 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient The Drowned World imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming has melted the ice caps, and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerg ...Show more
Vermilion Sands by J. G. Ballard
$14.99 AUD
$22.99 (34% off)
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
VERMILION SANDS is J. G. Ballard's fantasy landscape of the future. . . a latterday Palm Springs populated by forgotten movie queens, temperemental dilettantes and drugged beachcombers, with prima donna plants that sing arias, cloud sculptures, dial-a poem computer and ravishing, jewel-eyed Jezebels. . ...Show more
Vermillion Sands - Vintage Future by J. G. Ballard
$14.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Vermilion Sands is a fully automated desert-resort designed to fulfil the most exotic whims of the idle rich, but now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world. It is a lair for beachcombers, hange ...Show more
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