Super-Cannes

"Ballard's prose is seductive and pellucid and his stories compelling . . . Spiked with . . . gnomic dialogue and black, black humor, this book is also a captivating Chandlerian mystery."—The Washington Post Book World

"Each page, and this is a page-turner, might have the mind's knees knocking, the mind's flesh horripilating. Super-Cannes . . . confirms J. G. Ballard's substantial place in contemporary fiction."—The Washington Times

"Ballard's fictional world [is] like no one else's."—Atlantic Monthly

"Ballard is our poet laureate of Modernism's dead zones . . . [Super-Cannes] achieves a brilliant, thorny ambiguity—the kind that lodges splinterlike in your imagination, and refuses to come loose."—L.A. Weekly

"Rarely has his vision been so total, his creation so complete. Super-Cannes is as good as anything that Ballard has done before, and considering the work which that bland statement encompasses, it's the highest possible praise."—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Super-Cannes is the first great work of social theory of the twenty-first century."—Portland Mercury

"One of his finest."—The San Francisco Chronicle

"Ballard is a writer for whom anything is possible—a prose surrealist drawn to extremity and stylized representations of modernity, in which ordinary experience is never what it seems: it is always capable of being transformed into something remarkable."—The Times (London)

"Ballard loves to go that bit further out than anyone else; to nose around the outer limits of human behavior and to rub up against the inconceivable . . . Super-Cannes is prime Ballard—weighty, potent and extraordinary."—The Evening Standard (London)

"One of the most important, intelligent voices in contemporary fiction."—Susan Sontag

"Persuasive and gripping . . . Ballard quickly and effectively makes the point that corporatism has crushed our souls."—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

"A magical hybrid that belongs to no known genre, a masterpiece of the surrealist imagination."—New Statesman (London)

"More than any other writer Ballard understands the transformation technology may effect on human desire. This is his most potent statement yet of the outcome of that transformation, an elegant nightmare with all the internal coherence of an Escher engraving or a Calvino fable."—The Observer (London)

"From the febrile mind and pen of J.G. Ballard, instigator of perhaps the only project in post-war British fiction to fully engage with the modern age in all its blasted glory."—Time Out London