London on Steroids
BALLARD, J.G. The Unlimited Dream Company. London:Jonathan Cape1979
8vo. Original green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine, Pictorial jacket design by Bill Botten with black and white photograph of the author by Fay Godwin to rear wrapper, pp. [vi], 223, fine.
First edition
The Unlimited Dream Company transforms suburban London into a frightening yet exuberant apocolypse wherein both nature and its inhabitants run wild. The unreliable protagonist, having suffered a plane crash, returns from the dead to find himself trapped in a new and bewildering society whereby he is in possession of supernatural powers. It won the British Science Fiction Association Award in 1980.
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