About the Book

A special limited edition of J. G. Ballard’s cult, post-modern and shocking novel

I knew that Vaughan could never really die in a car-crash, but would in some way be re-born through those twisted radiator grilles and cascading windshield glass.

The Collector’s Edition

A former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, Robert Vaughan gathers around him a collection of alienated crash victims. Among them is James Ballard, our narrator, who is drawn into a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. Vaughan craves the ultimate crash – a head on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity.

Alongside Ballard’s cult postmodern novel, this special edition, edited by Chris Beckett, includes never-before-seen reproductions of Ballard’s annotated manuscript pages, essays, stories and material that shine a new light on this modern masterpiece.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780007378340
• ISBN 10: 0007378343
• Imprint: Fourth Estate
• On Sale: 04/06/2017
• Pages: 400
• List Price:49.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary
• BISAC2 : FICTION / Media Tie-In
• BISAC3 : FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
• BISAC4 : FICTION / Satire
• BISAC5 : FICTION / Erotica / General

J. G. Ballard

Biography

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. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J.G. Ballard died in 2009.

Simon Sellars lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is the editor of the magazine Architectural Review Asia Pacific and the publisher of ballardian.com. His writing on architecture, urbanism, film, travel and Ballard has been published widely.

Dan O'Hara is a philosopher of technology and literary historian. He currently lives in Berlin, and is International Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Fine Art Research, Birmingham City University.

Other Works by J. G. Ballard

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  Crash: The Collector’s Edition

  By J. G. Ballard

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  High-Rise

  By J. G. Ballard

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  The Unlimited Dream Company

  By J. G. Ballard