Introducing
Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2015
, a 300-page, full-size, full-colour collection of work by and about J.G. Ballard.
Deep Ends 2015
features an in-depth analysis of the first two manuscript pages of
Crash
by British Library archivist
Chris Beckett
-- the pages are reproduced here for the first time -- plus
Bernard Sigaud
's recent finding of the original JG Ballard English-language preface to the Danish edition of
The Atrocity Exhibition
, long considered lost and reprinted here with Sigaud's exhaustive history of the elusive "Forord". But wait, there's more! The book's contents include: -
Ana Barrado
-- 14 amazing shots of Las Vegas -
Andrew Frost
-- "Infinite Possibilities of the Sky: Expanding the Balladian Aesthetic" -
Benjamin Noys
-- "Conceptual Weapons: Ballard's Futures" -
David Pringle
-- "Chronology: Ballard/Moorcock 1955-1962" -
Dominika Oramus
-- "The World of Simulacra: JG Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Jean Baudrillard" -
Feroze Alam
-- Six post-apocalyptic paintings -
James Reich
-- "Hello Baudrillard" -
Jeannette Baxter
-- "Uncanny Forms: Reading Ballard's Non-Fiction" -
John Boston
-- "JG Ballard's Second Wave of Short Stories, 1959-1964" -
Matt Smith
-- "The Work of Emotion: Ballard and the Death of Effect" -
Mike Holliday
-- "A Home and a Grave: An Alternate Reading of 'The Unlimited Dream Company'" -
Paul Green
-- "Staring Down the Eye of the Cyclone:
The Wind From Nowhere
" -
Pippa Tandy
-- Writing World War III: JG Ballard's Field Guide to the Cold War" -
Theo Inglis
-- "Yesterdays Tomorrow is Not Today: JG Ballard and 'This is Tomorrow'" -
Valentina Polcini
-- Ancient Mariners of Inner Space and Robinson Crusoes in Reverse: Literary Myths in JG Ballard's Science Fiction"