Myths or Future Realities?
BALLARD, J.G. Myths of the Near Future. London:Jonathan Cape.1982
8vo. Original publishers blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine, Illustated wraparound dust jacket by Bill Botten, pp. [vi], 205, [i], top and bottom of spine lightly bumped, otherwise fine.
First edition
A grotesquely imaignative array of short stories from a Sci-fi icon. From a society in which everyone communicates through their televisions to a tale composed in the form of postcards from a couple who have been forever exiled from their home, Ballards eerie universes are bold imitations of what our own realities could too soon become and are perhaps less mythological in nature than they seem….
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