The Voices of Time

Paperback, 197 pages

Published April 10, 1997 by Orion mass market paperback.

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978-0-575-40130-3
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[Comment by Christopher Priest, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Voices of Time by JG Ballard (1960)

When he died two years ago, JG Ballard was widely celebrated for his novels, and rightly. [Empire of the Sun][2], an account of his wartime internment in Shanghai, brought him a Spielberg movie and a worldwide audience, but he also wrote the remarkable novels [Crash][3], [High-Rise][4], Cocaine Nights and many more. Inspired by Dalí, De Chirico, William Burroughs and Jean Genet, his talent was unique: his vivid, surprising and often beautiful prose was put to the creation of dreamlike and sometimes shocking images, while telling a deceptively straightforward narrative.

Ballard began writing in 1955 (he was in his mid-20s) and his first serious novel, [The Drowned World][5], did not appear until seven years later. Before that he produced a stream of astonishing short stories, which to long-term admirers of Ballard's writing are among his …

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  • Modern fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Short stories
  • Fiction