“g a ballard”

A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism?  Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel, is driving out to Brooklands, a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier his father was fatally wounded at the Metro-Centre, ... More

Like a latter-day Palm Springs, "Vermillion Sands" is a fully automated desert resort designed to fulfill the most exotic whims of the idle rich. But now it languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie stars, solitary impresarios and artistic and literary failures, a place where lov... More

Led by a charismatic doctor, a group of individuals form a violent protest movement to tear down the consumer society and replace it with a more meaningful existence. As middle England comes under attack, a sense of panic grips the capital.... More