Rick Mcgrath

Deep Ends Rick Mcgrath

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"