Reissued in a new cover style alongside The Terminal Beach J G Ballard is widely recognised as one of the finest writers of the 20th century His novel 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. 'The first thing to say about J G Ballard is not that he is among our finest writers of science fiction but that he is among our finest writers of fiction tout court period' Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess praised Ballard's story 'The Garden of Time' as 'one of the most beaut
* #17 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written* 'One of the brightest stars in post-war fiction' -- Kingsley Amis * 'There are those (I am among them) who would back Ballard as Britain's number one living novelist' -- John Sutherland, Sunday Times* 'This novel, with its brilliant descriptions of an inundated London and an ecology reverting to the Triassic, gained Ballard acceptance as a major author' -- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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