400 Pages of quotes from visionary writer J. G. Ballard!

RE/SEARCH ("America's most provocative independent publisher")

SHORTCUTS TO GENIUS! Will inspire and enlighten! Ballard is a sardonic prophet who has never compromised his noir-poetic vision--the William Burroughs of England. This book of quotes is a perfect "commuter" book for our fast-paced society, and speaks to our lack of time--the 21st century's Portable Shakespeare!

J.G. Ballard: QUOTES Available November 2004
PB, 5.25"x 7", 416 PP, PHOTOS & ILLUS. ($19.99 list, ISBN 1-889307-12-2; HB, signed $60)

BOOK DESCRIPTION: A pocket-size compendium of culturally clairvoyant quotations culled from impossible-to-find articles, interviews, and fiction. Grouped by topic for easy and enjoyable navigation, it includes commentary on the future, the past, 9-11, death of reality, celebrity, writing, art, music, cities, suburbs, relationships, death and violence, and more. This compilation of prophetic insights is not only comprehensive in content but also stunning visually, featuring more than 50 photographs by lens luminaries Ana Barrado, Charles Gatewood, and others. Quotes edited by V. Vale.

ABOUT J.G. BALLARD: Born in Shanghai in 1930 of English parents and interned as a youth during the Japanese occupation, Ballard has published some forty novels and short-story compilations. In 1987 Empire of the Sun (loosely based on his experiences in Shanghai) was made into a film by Steven Spielberg, and in 1996 David Cronenberg filmed his controversial novel Crash. Millennium People (2003) is his newest novel.
- "Britain's most uncompromisingly contemporary novelist."--New Statesman
- "J.G. Ballard is the Dr Moreau of British fiction, creator of controlled environments and out-of-control dystopias...Ballard understands the transformation technology may effect on human desire."--Observer
- "He continues to produce the most trenchant and effective critique of the era."--Independent
- "Ballard always amazes."--Sunday Times
- "Ballard just gets hipper and hipper."--Guardian

ABOUT RE/SEARCH: Founded 1977 in San Francisco by V. Vale, a City Lights employee, with $100 "seed money" from Allen Ginsberg. Most influential books from this ever-independent small press include Modern Primitives, Pranks, Incredibly Strange Films, Industrial Culture Handbook, Incredibly Strange Music, The Atrocity Exhibition, Search and Destroy Vol One and Vol Two, and William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle.

"The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason.
They will be driven by irrationality,
By competing systems of psychopathology."
"I believe in the mystery and melancholy of a hand,
In the kindness of trees,
In the wisdom of light"--J.G.Ballard

Limited First Edition on art paper. J.G. BALLARD: QUOTES. ISBN 1-889307-12-2 $19.99 PB. (Signed HB $60, due out January 2005)

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J.G. BALLARD: INTERVIEWS. ISBN 1-889307-13-0 $14.99 PB due out February 2005