by J. G. Ballard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586024195
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«The Crystal World» is the science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard, published by Triad/Panther Books in paperback (175 pages, in English).
In the West African jungle, a temporal leak crystallizes the vegetation and animals: trees become jewels and crocodiles, shining sculptures. Most flee in terror, but some remain fascinated: a doctor seeks his former lover, a Jesuit carries a crystal cross and a tribe of lepers seeks paradise.
Winner of the Seiun Award for best foreign novel in 1970; the novel was originally published in 1966.
A read for those seeking speculative narrative with an apocalyptic tone, with J. G. Ballard's characteristic atmosphere.
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.
