...Matthew Hart Abstract This essay considers a late novel sequence by the British speculative fiction writer J. G. Ballard (1930–2009). Although Ballard is often celebrated as a great iconoclast, there is arguably no postwar novelist with a more recognizable style. The essay analyzes Cocaine Nights...

...Joel Evans Abstract The article identifies a shift in J. G. Ballard's work from a preoccupation with the individual to a preoccupation with the collective. It reads Ballard's late fiction as being part of a wider turn in the culture of Western, neoliberal states toward a reignition of a spirit...

... Evans's essay “The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective” is “meaningless action, the more violent the better” ( Ballard 249 ). But is meaningless action the action of a super-protagonist or an anagonist? For Evans, the meaningless action that takes place in each of J. G. Ballard's last four novels...

... as extraterritorial: J. G. Ballard's and Kazuo Ishiguro's novels set in the Shanghai International Settlement are a major focus, as is China Miéville's The City and the City , with its science fictional double-space. But many do not. The strength of Hart's analysis is his capacity to show how the extraterritorial...

... as well as its points of emphasis some bias in favor of the in every sense domestic novel. The silence on British-authored war novels with non-British settings—books like J. G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip and J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, set in collapsing Far East outposts of empire...

... is always imbricated in a changing spatial, political, and economic order—both testing the cultural logic and instantiating it. Scholars outside of modernist studies will find value in this book as well since Duffy dedicates as much ink to J. G. Ballard’s Crash (1973) or Jameson’s Postmodernism...

... biosphere or change its rules. Many argued for the destruction of the biosphere, as being the lesser of two evils” (124). Robinson is riffing on Jameson (writing about J. G. Ballard and Ursula K. Le Guin): “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end...

... available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Martin Delany Blake; or, The Huts of America Karl Marx African American novel slave narrative Toward the beginning of Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America (1859, 1861–62), Judge Ballard...

... and Beckett that there must be something for them in this state of being overpowered. I think they know that the bottom, so to speak, is more powerful than the top, because the top is actually not in charge. Matthew Hart's identification of the “extraordinary” event that cracks open the “enclave” form of J. G...

... space. But I was always surprised that I couldn't publish Men in Space and Remainder when I wrote them, because they seemed to me extremely literary novels in the sense that they're clearly plugging into a kind of literary gene pool. Remainder is so dependent on [Samuel] Beckett, [J. G.] Ballard...

... to his books, which were in apple-pie order” (21). The accountant's numbers are high-maintenance constructs that require as much administrative zeal as the collars. Commenting on the speculative fiction of J. G. Ballard, Fredric Jameson notes that heat often suggests the “dissolution of the body...