'The most important British contemporary writer' Will Self, Independent
'Ballard is the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination - and a national treasure' Nicholas Royle, Guardian
'A writer of enormous inventive powers. Ballard has ... a remarkable gift for filling the empty, deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of the imagination' Malcolm Bradbury, New York Times
'In a shrinking world increasingly bereft of original imaginations, J.G. Ballard stands alone, a bizarre visionary maverick' Eileen Bradbury, Irish Times
'J.G. Ballard is a magician of the contemporary scene...His fantastical landscapes are among the most haunting in English literature. No one else writes with such enchanted clarity or strange power' Guardian