The Crystal World is an early work from J.G. Ballard, but contains much of what were to become his trademarks: surrealism, the apocalypse, and how environments affect our psychology. With three other books, The Drowned World, The Burning World, and his debut The Wind From Nowhere, it forms a quartet of ‘catastrophe novels’, showcasing natural destruction by the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. It is a heady and poetic cocktail of fantasy and symbolism.
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Stephen King has written an awe-inspiring eleven collections of short stories, many of which are best known by their film adaptations – The Shawshank Redemption, 1408, Stand By Me. Everything’s Eventual is the seventh, published in 2002 after the runaway success of his pioneering work ‘Riding the Bullet’ (the world’s first mass-market ebook, which jammed the servers of the host website from so many people trying to download it at once). It includes fourteen short stories and novellas, including ‘Riding the Bullet’, with introductions and/or postscripts from King detailing the inspirations and processes he went through writing them. It’s a remarkably solid collection, with no bad stories and a number of brilliant ones.
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