Terminal Atrocity Zone: Ballard (Paperback)

Stephen Barber

ISBN 10: 0985762519 / ISBN 13: 9780985762513

Published by Sun Vision Press, New York, 2013

About this Item

Paperback. Terminal Atrocity Zone examines a critical 7-year period in the work of author J G Ballard, ranging from 1966 to 1973. It includes a detailed overview of this period, with various original essays, and also with revealing interviews from the time in which Ballard discusses his work in depth; plus a section of works by Ballard, including: Coitus 80, the first surgical fiction'; Journey Across a Crater, an experimental 'condensed' blueprint for many of the ideas later developed in Crash; and much, much more.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Terminal Atrocity Zone: Ballard (Paperback)
• Publisher: Sun Vision Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985762519
• ISBN 13: 9780985762513
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

"Terminal Atrocity Zone" examines a critical 7-year period in the work of author J G Ballard, ranging from 1966 to 1973. During this time, Ballard produced the series of "condensed novels" which would eventually form his book The Atrocity Exhibition; began a series of "surgical fictions"; created a series of collages and other printed art-pieces; staged his controversial Crashed Cars exhibition in London; made Crash!, a television film on automobile culture; and initiated the ideas and texts which would culminate in the publication of his key novel, Crash.

"Terminal Atrocity Zone" includes a detailed overview of this period, with various original essays, and also with revealing interviews from the time in which Ballard discusses his work and ideas in depth; plus a section of works by Ballard himself, including: Coitus 80, the first "surgical fiction"; Journey Across A Crater, an experimental "condensed" blueprint for many of the ideas later developed in Crash; Ballard's own forewords from foreign-language editions of The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash; and Ballard's cryptic collage series of Advertiser's Announcements, created between 1967 and 1971.

Also included is the first published analysis of Ballard's terminal, unfinished novel, World Versus America.

"Terminal Atrocity Zone" comprises an essential document of one of the world's most original and controversial authors at the seminal point of his creativity.

About the Author

J.G. Ballard (15 November 1930 ― 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction. His best-known books are Crash (1973), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg.