A User’s Guide to the Millennium

‘One of the most sensitive and enigmatic novelists of the present day.’

Times Literary Supplement

‘Present in everything Ballard writes is that sense of a unique and profoundly original mind.’

ANGELA CARTER

Contents

Cover (#u2b914029-06eb-5a49-aa40-ed7035b2955b)

Title Page (#uf0389019-eeee-533e-800f-72d261ae01de)

Copyright (#ulink_fe02e549-6a89-5602-9c0d-ca9f4a5ea09a)

Praise (#u272eb1e7-3d56-53d2-8a2c-36ff4d06b92d)

1 FILM (#ulink_1c3bb4cb-5cb7-5c0b-aa98-05633d3e0487)

Casablanca, Brando and Mae West, Star Wars and Blue Velvet … (#ulink_1c3bb4cb-5cb7-5c0b-aa98-05633d3e0487)

2 LIVES

Nancy Reagan, Elvis, Howard Hughes and Hirohito …

3 THE VISUAL WORLD

Warhol, Hockney, Dali and the Surrealists …

4 WRITERS

Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, the Marquis de Sade and William Burroughs …

5 SCIENCE

Einstein, the Gene Pool, Freud and Richard Feynman …

6 AUTOBIOGRAPHY

From Shanghai to Shepperton …

7 SCIENCE FICTION

Inner Space, Early Manifestos, and the Billion Year Spree …

8 IN GENERAL

Coca-Cola and Walt Disney, Mein Kampf and the Astronauts …

9 AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Memories of the Rising Sun …

Keep Reading (#ub49211b3-c3cc-59af-9f49-a0b80d2a824a)

Index

Acknowledgement (#ulink_6429f45f-76de-5850-ac86-e1c5286a4a04)

About the Author (#ulink_ecaae9e0-6539-5cfb-a25f-2f218ced69fa)

Also by the Author

About the Publisher