From the author of The Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights the story of suburban London transformed into an exotic dreamworld.When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is surreally transformed. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax.In this characteristically inventive novel Ballard displays to devastating effect the extraordinary imagination that established him as one of Britain’s most highly acclaimed writers.This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ned Beauman, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.
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John Gray. The Unlimited Dream Company
J. G. BALLARD. The Unlimited Dream Company
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Contents
Introduction
The Coming of the Helicopters
I Steal the Aircraft
The Vision
An Attempt to Kill Me
Back from the Dead
Trapped by the Motorway
Stark’s Zoo
The Burial of the Flowers
The River Barrier
The Evening of the Birds
Mrs St Cloud
‘Did You Dream Last Night?’
The Wrestling Match
The Strangled Starling
I Swim as a Right Whale
A Special Hunger
A Pagan God
The Healer
‘See!’
The Brutal Shepherd
I Am the Fire
The Remaking of Shepperton
Plans for a Flying School
The Gift-making
The Wedding Gown
First Flight
The Air is Filled with Children
Consul of This Island
The Life Engine
Night
The Motorcade
The Dying Aviator
Rescue
A Mist of Flies
Bonfires
Strength
I Give Myself Away
Time to Fly
Departure
I Take Stark
Miriam Breathes
The Unlimited Dream Company
Interview
Fly Away
About the Author
By the same author
About the Publisher
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From the reviews of The Unlimited Dream Company:
‘A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire … dense and erotic and magical, a pleasure to read’
