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The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Don’t be fooled by the car crashes and explosions in J.G. Ballard’s writings. Or by the descriptions of flesh wounds and injuries that read like extracts from a coroner’s report. In particular, don’t pay any attention to the techno talk that might lull you into thinking that you are reading a science fiction story.

All that’s just there to distract you.

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