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Showing 1 - 12 of 29 results for “jg ballard”
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  • Dangerous Visions

    by Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Poul Anderson, Philip K. Dick, various authors, Samuel R. Delany, Frederik Pohl, J. G. Ballard, Robert Silverberg0, Larry Niven1, Roger Zelazny2 ...
    Series series The Dangerous Visions Series
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Crash

    A Novel

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    The Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel—a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism—Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie SmithWhen 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Millennium People

    A Novel

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    "The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature . . . no one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect." —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book ReviewViolent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in this "fascinating" ( San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People "seeks to illuminate our hearts ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco ChronicleA collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard.With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • High-Rise

    A Novel

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    "Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New StatesmanWhen 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Concrete Island

    A Novel

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    A wealthy architect becomes a modern-day Robinson Crusoe in this chilling, twisted novel by the author of Empire of the Sun and High-Rise.Robert Maitland, a thirty-five-year-old architect, is driving home from his London offices when a blowout sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control. After smashing through a temporary barrier, he finds himself dazed and disoriented on a traffic island ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Empire of the Sun

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    The “profound and moving work of the imagination” (Los Angeles Times Book Review) that inspired the classic motion picture by Steven Spielberg, tells the epic story of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.Shanghai, 1941—a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition)

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    A new generation discovers "the most original English writer of the last century." —China Miéville, The NationAppearing in hardcover in America for the first time, this neglected Ballardian masterpiece promises to be a touchstone for environmentalists the world over.First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard’s mesmerizing and ferociously imaginative novel not only gained him widespread critical acclaim ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • High-Rise

    A Novel

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    Series series Movie Tie-in Editions
    The classic novel of luxury and depravity, now a major motion picture.From the author of the celebrated dystopian classics Kingdom Come, The Drowned World, and The Drought, High Rise is a prescient story of class warfare. The film adaptation by acclaimed director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, Kill List) features Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons; BAFTA Award nominees Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller; ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Extreme Metaphors

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. Best known for his controversial bestseller ‘Crash’ and the memoir ‘Empire of the Sun’, he was a writer of unique talent – always surprising, frequently prescient.Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels and, as this book reminds us, Ballard’s restive intelligence ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Crystal World

    A Novel

    by J.G. Ballard ...
    "Magical and not to be missed," a dystopian novel of a man traveling through Africa who encounters an apocalyptic forest heralding environmental collapse ( The Guardian ).Through a "leaking" of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kingdom Come

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Fiction)“J.G. Ballard is the undisputed laureate of suburban psychosis.... A brilliant novel.” —Literary ReviewA violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged ... Read more

    $11.69 USD