Disaster Area

Name: Disaster Area
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780007513628

by Unknown Author

192 pages2017HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780007513628

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This mesmerizing collection demonstrates perfectly Ballard’s extraordinary writing talent. All the concentrated power and imagination that distinguish his novels are demonstrated here: the iron strength of his stories lies in the juxtaposition of a recognisable physical word with an inner, complex dream landscape. Within this Disaster Area you’ll find: The Concentration City – where the world creaks under one unimaginably vast megalopolis. there is no free space, and there is no way out ... The Subliminal Man – come face to face with the ultimate advertisement, then wish you hadn’t ... Manhole 69 – a group of surgically altered men try to do without sleep. But permanent consciousness turns out to be worse than any nightmare.

Publication Details

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published: 2017
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780007513628
Language: en

About Unknown Author

James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he discovered science fiction in and he began to write science fiction. He left the RAF in 1954 and returned to England. In 1956 he published his science fiction story. In 1960 he committed to writing full-time.