'Something magical and not to be missed' Guardian
'Beautifully rendered ... Ballard the poet in full ecstatic blast'
Anthony Burgess
'Of all the unknown regions Ballard's imagination has opened up, this crystalline forest is the most haunting' Guardian
'A haunting vision of diseased beauty ... Ballard sustains it with extraordinary intensity' Observer
'Ballard transports us once more into his own mystical, glittering and poetic universe' Sunday Telegraph
'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton
'Beautifully rendered ... Ballard the poet in full ecstatic blast'
Anthony Burgess
'Of all the unknown regions Ballard's imagination has opened up, this crystalline forest is the most haunting' Guardian
'A haunting vision of diseased beauty ... Ballard sustains it with extraordinary intensity' Observer
'Ballard transports us once more into his own mystical, glittering and poetic universe' Sunday Telegraph
'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton