Deep Ends

Introducing Deep Ends: The J.G. Ballard Anthology 2014, a 200-page, full-size, full-colour collection of work by and about J.G. Ballard. Deep Ends features an ultra-rare 1980 prose-poem by JGB called Crystal of the Sea, discovered as the Foreword to an obscure Japanese photo book, plus previously-unpublished articles by Bea Ballard and Iain Sinclair, plus a long and extraordinary interview with Fay Ballard by David Pringle. But wait, there's more! The book's contents include: • J.G. Ballard's symbolic essay, "Crystal of the Sea" • Bea Ballard's heartfelt homage: "Miracle Father" • David Pringle's great interview: "Memories of Life: Conversation with Fay Ballard" • Ana Barrado's highly Ballardian photos of south Florida: "Neotropic Cyphers" • Raymond Tait's fascinating history: "J.G. Ballard at The Leys School, Cambridge, 1946 to 1949" • Mike Bonsall's imaginative journey: "Mind-Mapping The Terminal Beach" • D. Harlan Wilson's rather unbelievable essay: "Geometry of Mourning" • Russell Cuzner's interview with Andy Sharp of English Heretic about JGB's use of magic. • Umberto Rossi's analysis of "War Fever" and "Theatre of War", called "Is the War Inside Your Mind?" • Mike Holliday's "J.G. Ballard and the Vicissitudes of Time" examines "News From the Sun", "Memories of the Space Age" and "Myths of the near Future" • Lawrence Russell recalls creating 30-minute radio plays of "The Dead Astronaut" and "Question of Re-Entry" for the CBC in his remembrance "Brain Scan of a Dead Script Writer" • Paul Green offers a reverie of his favourite JGB short story in "Dreaming of the Towers" • Dominika Oramus fuses Ballard and Baudrillard in her topical essay, "War on Satellite TV in the Stories of J.G. Ballard" • Pippa Tandy does film analysis in "Personal Mythologies: An Account of James Runcie's 'Shanghai Jim'" • Bernard Sigaud goes fetishistic in "Piping Hot and Softly Blowing" • Feroze Alam imagines Balard in nine paintings: "Landscapes of the Dream" • Iain Sinclair gives us a geographic history of a life-size Ballard cut-out, complete with many photos, in his quite entertaining psycho-essay, "Thin Man Walking" • Christopher Cokinos gives us his book review of "A User's Guide to the Millennium" in "Book Review, Meet J.G. Ballard" • Rick McGrath talks JGB and movies with filmmaker Solveig Nordlund • Dan Mitchell shows us ]his surreal poster: "Zodiac Hilton" • Pedro Groppo delves into the cinematic deep with "Toy Planes, Home and Hearth: Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun" • Peter Brigg goes to the bottom of "The Drowned World" • Christopher Cokinos is very funny with his Ballardian pastiche, "Why I Want to Fuck Rupert Murdoch" • Umberto Rossi lists them all in the "J.G. Ballard Secondary Bibliography" The book also features five "Advertiser's Announcements" -- ersatz copies of the five famous "Atrocity Exhibition" advertisements Ballard made for Ambit magazine -- created by Will Shutes of the Test Centre and Traven T. Crowes. "Deep Ends" also, for the first time, features content from t