I want to say that this is JG Ballard’s second novel. And while I’ve read only two other of his novels (that I can recall), I have read all of his short fiction so I have a decent sense of him. We are asked to resist the temptation to see JG Ballard as a kind of prophet in an introduction to the novel by Martin Amis. His point, as a good liberal, is that if we read this book as a prophetic vision of our […]