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‘Dystopias are Ballard’s stock-in-trade and, when on song, he animates them better than anyone else...it takes a master novelist to pick out the small details...fascinating.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘It is his ability to summon a deteriorated but recognisable modern world into being that makes him among the finest dystopians at work.’ Sunday Times
‘We’re in Ballard-land, his old archetypes at war in a familiar-yet-strange terrain, and that should be compelling enough for any reader...Ballard, paradoxically, with all his characters gripped by obsession and necessity, is one of the great novelists of freedom.’ Financial Times
‘“Kingdom Come” looks like a report on the state of modern Britain, but it’s really a report on the state of J.G. Ballard’s head, and the good news is that it’s as fertile as ever...“Kingdom Come” is impressively packed with brilliant apercus.’ Observer
‘The Magus of Shepperton is on tip-top form. No-one else writes with such enchanted clarity or strange power as James Graham Ballard.’Evening Standard
‘Ballard's nightmare of consumerism-turned-fascism has enough truth among the fantasy to turn outings to B&Q and IKEA into decidedly sinister operations.’ Dazed & Confused
‘If anger is the rocket-fuel of satire, then J.G. Ballard is a one-man danger zone...exhilarating...important, challenging, (a) justly furious novel.’ The Independent
‘“Kingdom Come”, his latest novel, demonstrates that he is still in his eight decade, as outre as ever, and still as keen to understand the national psyche...Ballard still retains a clear-sighted, almost vatic quality, which makes him telepathically linked to the subconscious mind of Middle England.’ The Spectator
'Ballard retains the terrifying, satirical, self-possessedness that makes him never less than worth reading.' Independent on Sunday
'Funny, chilling and prescient, this is certainly a novel whose message no one can afford to ignore.' The Times
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. 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 most recent novel was ‘Kingdom Come’, published in 2006.
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