'Ballard is one of the few genuine surrealists in business, and seems to have a hotline to the most uncomfortable reality. At its most heightened, Ballard's prose is an impacted mass of images, dense and iridescent as mercury, stranger, you might say, than fiction.'
ANGELA CARTER, 'Guardian'

'His fantasies are explored with a maniac's logic and an artist's sensibilities.'
NEW STATESMAN

'J.G. Ballard is renowned for the diversity of his inventions and the richness of his descriptive language.'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'He combines exotic symbolism with psychological insight, producing some of the most polished and concentrated prose we have in English.'
MICHAEL MOORCOCK

J.G. Ballard's talent is one of the most mysterious and distempered in modern English fiction.'
MARTIN AMIS