The Crystal World

ISBN-13: 9780586024195 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 176 str.

J. G. Ballard;Robert Macfarlane

Opis

The West African jungle is turning into crystal. Everywhere plants, trees and animals are changing and men are fleeing except some foolhardy types who remain to drift, dazzled, through this spectacular dreamworld.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.

Robert Macfarlane won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his first book, Mountains of the Mind (2003). His second, The Wild Places (2007), was similarly celebrated, winning three prizes and being shortlisted for six more. Both books were adapted for television by the BBC. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.