Plan for the Abduction of JG Ballard

by Jeremy Reed, Audrey Szasz, Martin Bladh (Illustrator)

A seamless, exhilarating collaboration with the torched hydrogen plume of a rocket launch, the synchronistic bonding of Jeremy Reed and Audrey Szasz, sharing a mutual Ballardian gene to expand and reinvent Ballard through what reads like a posthumous extension of his work, feeds directly into Ballard’s vision of visitors from the near future occupying a sensational hyperreal space in the displaced present. Propulsively working off each other’s themed exchanges, the two have succeeded in creating an interactive fiction that rehabilitates both Ballard and his anti-hero Vaughan to a searing junction with post-apocalypse.

212 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Arno Vlierberghe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jeremy Reed, Audrey Szasz, New Juche, Stewart Home, Steve Finbow, Thomas Moore, Steve Beard, ... Gelukkig bestaan en schrijven deze mensen nog, anders zouden we de boomkap echt niet meer kunnen verantwoorden.

[Adam Hudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Abduction becomes inhabitation

A million atomic kisses

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 3 out of 5]

A seamless, exhilarating collaboration with the torched hydrogen plume of a rocket launch, the synchronistic bonding of Jeremy Reed and Audrey Szasz, sharing a mutual Ballardian gene to expand and reinvent Ballard through what reads like a posthumous extension of his work, feeds directly into Ballard’s vision of visitors from the near future occupying a sensational hyperreal space in the displaced present. Propulsively working off each other’s themed exchanges, the two have succeeded in creating an interactive fiction that rehabilitates both Ballard and his anti-hero Vaughan to a searing junction with post-apocalypse.

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JG Ballard on Jeremy Reed: ‘Jeremy Reed’s talent is almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance. He is Rimbaud reconfigured as The Man Who Fell To Earth, a visitor from deep space whose time machine was designed by Lautreamont and de Sade, and powered by the most exotic fuels the imagination has ever devised. Each time he goes out into our mundane world he makes the dust sing.’

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Todd Swift on Audrey Szasz: ‘Audrey Szasz is a deviant genius of surreal and perverse image-play; her subversive imagination shocks and thrills in equal measure. She may well be the strangest and most disturbing new writer now at work in Britain. If she was in France she would be fêted.’