Note: OCLC 26263213 reports a 1992 printing, but this may be in error.

Synopsis: WorldCat: "The author of Empire of the Sun and other acclaimed novels and stories, British science fiction writer J.G. Ballard is here given a penetrating analysis, his work being explored in terms of its internal coherence, its continuity and development, and its mythic and metaphysical aspects. Ballard's fiction is widely considered to be a critique of our secular, rational, technological culture, but this study departs from earlier ones that label him a fatalistic or nihilistic writer obsessed with entropy, devolution, and dissolution in showing him, instead, to be most deeply concerned with the rede."