Millennium People
“Ballard, acutely fierce as ever, detonates a bomb under Middle England in his continuing attempt to shock the middle classes out of complacency and into violent struggle.” (Esquire [UK])“Much of the fun ofMillennium People—and it is one of the most amusing novels I've read in a long time—comes from watching as the world finally catches up with Ballard and Ballard, wryly, reacts.” (The Guardian)“Ballard is a natural surrealist; his is a world where the unthinkable is commonplace and rationality chucked in the towel long ago.... Ballard's phrasing is as sure as ever. He writes wonderfully well about London. His characterization is as vivid as it is strange. An extremely unsettling novel. Reading it is like having all the planks that underpin your life removed one by one and being forced to confront the brutality and emptiness that lies below.” (John Preston - The Scotsman)“Ballard's flowing prose exerts its usual hypnotic spell and there are many darkly beautiful moments.” (Andrew Martin - Daily Express)“Wonderfully warped, blackly comic! written with Ballard's customary panache, its potent mix of sex, violence and radicalism will keep his fans happy.Millennium Peopleis at once deadly serious and slightly ridiculous—and somehow all the more unsettling for it.” (The Economist)“Millennium Peoplewill compete with the best of contemporary British fiction.” (Ian Thomson - The Independent)“Starred Review. Ballard is a British Philip K. Dick, heir to Conrad and H.G. Wells, in whose stories the present, taken to extremes, anticipates the future. In fact, the only complaint to be made of this bruisingly smart novel is that it has taken eight years for it to appear in the U.S.” (Publishers Weekly)