Jg ballard

High Rise, 1975 (n.707, 1976)

As Tom Hanks announces that he is to publish a collection of short stories inspired by his love of typewriters, we remember some of the other writers who have cherished them, across the ages

Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.

Rushing to Paradise, JG Ballard, designedbydavid (David Watson)

Long before he was a famous novelist, Crash’s author conceived a baffling London-wide poster campaign. Could the great surrealist’s paintings help decipher it?

JG Ballard, Writer and Philosopher, Author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, High Rise, Atrocity Exhibition, to name just a few. Photographed at his home for Liberation Newspaper, Paris.

Ballard, JG The Drowned World 1962 Berkley F-655 Cover by Powers, Richard T IG

j.g. ballard - the day of forever, 1985 - james marsh

Cover of the first American edition of The Atrocity Exhibition pulped by Doubleday in 1970. Illustration: Michael Foreman