J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films. Martin Amis is one of Britain's most prolific post-war writers and a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. His stories and essays explore the absurdity of the postmodern condition.
"Ballard is probably the most original English writer of the last century... the book is indispensable." -- China Mieville - The Nation "Eerie and melancholy, they unsettle like a Dali painting or a Helmut Newton photograph." -- Washington Post "A revelation; essential reading." -- Literary Journal "A master story writer-the maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective." -- Jonathan Lethem - The New York Times Book Review
"Ballard is probably the most original English writer of the last century... the book is indispensable." -- China Mieville - The Nation "Eerie and melancholy, they unsettle like a Dali painting or a Helmut Newton photograph." -- Washington Post "A revelation; essential reading." -- Literary Journal "A master story writer-the maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective." -- Jonathan Lethem - The New York Times Book Review
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