Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2014 -

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Introducing Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2014, a 200-page, full-size, full-colour collection of work by and about J.G. Ballard. Deep Ends features an ultra-rare 1980 prose-poem by JGB called Crystal of the Sea, discovered as the Foreword to an obscure Japanese photo book, plus previously-unpublished articles by Bea Ballard and Iain Sinclair, plus a long and extraordinary interview with Fay Ballard by David Pringle. But wait, there's more! The book's contents include: • J.G. Ballard's symbolic essay, Crystal of the Sea • Bea Ballard's heartfelt homage: Miracle Father • David Pringle's great interview: Memories of Life: Conversation with Fay Ballard • Ana Barrado's highly Ballardian photos of south Florida: Neotropic Cyphers • Raymond Tait's fascinating history: J.G. Ballard at The Leys School, Cambridge, 1946 to 1949 • Mike Bonsall's imaginative journey: Mind-Mapping The Terminal Beach • D. Harlan Wilson's rather unbelievable essay: Geometry of Mourning • Russell Cuzner's interview with Andy Sharp of English Heretic about JGB's use of magic. • Umberto Rossi's analysis of War Fever and Theatre of War, called Is the War Inside Your Mind? • Mike Holliday's J.G. Ballard and the Vicissitudes of Time examines News From the Sun, Memories of the Space Age and Myths of the near Future • Lawrence Russell recalls creating 30-minute radio plays of The Dead Astronaut and Question of Re-Entry for the CBC in his remembrance Brain Scan of a Dead Script Writer • Paul Green offers a reverie of his favourite JGB short story in Dreaming of the Towers • Dominika Oramus fuses Ballard and Baudrillard in her topical essay, War on Satellite TV in the Stories of J.G. Ballard • Pippa Tandy does film analysis in Personal Mythologies: An Account of James Runcie's 'Shanghai Jim' • Bernard Sigaud goes fetishistic in Piping Hot and Softly Blowing • Feroze Alam imagines Balard in nine paintings: Landscapes of the Dream • Iain Sinclair gives us a geographic history of a life-size Ballard cut-out, complete with many photos, in his quite entertaining psycho-essay, Thin Man Walking • Christopher Cokinos gives us his book review of A User's Guide to the Millennium in Book Review, Meet J.G. Ballard • Rick McGrath talks JGB and movies with filmmaker Solveig Nordlund • Dan Mitchell shows us ]his surreal poster: Zodiac Hilton • Pedro Groppo delves into the cinematic deep with Toy Planes, Home and Hearth: Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun • Peter Brigg goes to the bottom of The Drowned World • Christopher Cokinos is very funny with his Ballardian pastiche, Why I Want to Fuck Rupert Murdoch • Umberto Rossi lists them all in the J.G. Ballard Secondary Bibliography The book also features five Advertiser's Announcements -- ersatz copies of the five famous Atrocity Exhibition advertisements Ballard made for Ambit magazine -- created by Will Shutes of the Test Centre and Traven T. Crowes. Deep Ends also, for the first time, features content from t