The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard

‘The best account yet of the life of one of the great English-language writers of the last century.’ - The New World'A brave and moving book' - Adam Sisman, the Guardian‘Fascinating...very timely ...will introduce new readers to a writer Priest rightly calls one of the greatest of the 20th century.’ - Sunday TimesThis book is about J.G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel. J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age, and he had an intense and turbulent history - an experience famously fictionalised in Empire of the Sun.Ballard’s novels are among the finest and most unusual fiction that has ever been published.Whether in the hyper-surrealism of High-Rise or the erotic violence of Crash, he upended the morality and reality of our world. As a young writer, it had been Ballard’s stories, most of all, that had helped cement Christopher Priest’s passion for science fiction.He set out to write a biography that would make people understa