New Releases by J. G. Ballard

A collection of novelist''s non-fiction writings spanning more than thirty years addresses topics including the arts, science, literature, popular culture, and his own life.

Para un foraneo, los britanicos que viven en Estrella de Mar, en una pequena localidad de la Costa del Sol, forman una de las comunidades mas idilicas que puedan imaginar, con un estilo de vida que comprende constantes actividades culturales y deportivas, centradas en un club nautico. Pero esa imagen se pulveriza cuando se desata un incendio en misteriosas circunstancias que se salda con cinco victimas. El director del club, Frank Prentice, es detenido por asesinato. De Londres llega Charles, el hermano de Frank, quien descubre sorprendido que, si bien ni los testimonios ni la policia lo creen responsable del crimen, Frank insiste en autoinculparse. A fin de comprender la actitud de este, Charles resuelve investigar Estrella de Mar y detectara extranas redes de personajes y comportamientos. Bajo la civilizada superficie se esconde un mundo secreto de crimenes, drogas y sexo ilicito, todo orquestado por la carismatica figura del tenista Bobby Crawford. Un mundo de tal poder magnetico que acabara arrastrando al propio Charles... Noches de cocaina es Ballard en estado puro: el que explora el lado oscuro de la psique, el que provoca; el que cuestiona y despedaza la sociedad occidental del siglo XX, llevando al limite el sexo, la violencia, el frenesi y el ansia de poder y seguridad, sinonimo de aislamiento y muerte cultural.

The stories in this collection explore the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology.

In this sequel to his award-winning Empire of the Sun, young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties. Penetrating and wise, J. G. Ballard''s biting social commentary and pushing of boundaries make this semi-autobiographical novel a small classic.

When the Atrocity Exhibition was originally printed (1970), Nelson Doubleday saw a copy and was so horrified he ordered the entire press run shredded. Two years later Grove Press brought out a small hardback printing re-titled Love and Napalm: Export USA. Now Re/Search brings out an illustrated, large-format edition of this notorious work, augmented with four recently written stories, plus extensive annotations-written by the author, never before published-which clarify and illuminate this exhilarating, prophetic masterpiece. Book jacket.

In the year 2030, crew members of the SS Apollo explore the derelict, windswept desert that was once America and, in Las Vegas, they discover that megalomaniac President Charles Manson has preserved late twentieth-century technology and culture

The "Cape Canaveral" stories, eight stories originally published between 1962 and 1985.

The wealthy inhabitants of a luxurious, well-designed apartment complex become engaged in hostilities that begin in the dropping of debris onto lower balconies and climax in drunken, marauding attacks by rival floor tribes

Controversial science fiction writer, J.G. Ballard, tells of his unorthodox upbringing in Shanghai in the 1940''s. Ballard has achieved acclaim for works such as Empire of the Sun, and controversy over Crash, which investigates the psychosexual significance of the car crash. The book includes an article on Ballard Mythmaker of the 20th Century by William S. Burroughs, and chapter one of Crash, plus Ballard''s introduction to the French edition.

From one of the most powerful and original talents in science fiction comes the story of a new world--a strange world where solar radiation fluctuations have melted the polar ice caps, flooding the land and raising the temperature of the atmosphere.

When Robert Maitland''s car crashes over a concrete parapet onto the island below, he finds himself trapped in a bizarre world that seems to mirror his own mind.

Ballard''s genius for imagining exotic places appears again in Vermilion Sands where he creates a fantasy landscape of the future. These stories feature forgotten movie queens and guilt-ridden femmes fatales who exercise their every whim in a culture of unlimited technology.