Crystal World Reissue - Hardcover

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller `Empire of the Sun' won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel `Crash' was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography `Miracles of Life' was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, `Extreme Metaphors', was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

`Something magical and not to be missed' Guardian`Beautifully rendered ... Ballard the poet in full ecstatic blast'Anthony Burgess`Of all the unknown regions Ballard's imagination has opened up, this crystalline forest is the most haunting' Guardian`A haunting vision of diseased beauty ... Ballard sustains it with extraordinary intensity' Observer`Ballard transports us once more into his own mystical, glittering and poetic universe' Sunday Telegraph`The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton