num_pages: 240
description: Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wins control over a small atoll in the Pacific and sets up a utopian community. Breeding other threatened species and among themselves, these homesteaders slowly transform an Eden of their own into a much darker place. A savage send-up of environmentalism, feminism, and extremism of all sorts, Rushing to Paradise is also a brave new exploration of that strange territory J. G. Ballard has illuminated over the course of his career.
language: English
title: Rushing to Paradise
titlecomplete: Rushing to Paradise
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, British Literature, Utopia, Environment, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Dystopia
ratings_count: 826
publisher: Picador