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Book by Ballard, J. G.
- Sales Rank: #1159706 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Arkham House Pub
- Published on: 1988-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 5.75" w x 1.00" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 216 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
Ballard ( Empire of the Sun ; The Day of Creation ) is arguably the pre-eminent living science-fiction writer, and recognized as a literary force by readers and critics outside the SF field. This collection brings together Ballard's "Cape Canaveral stories," eight in all, written between 1962 and 1985, and set in a future when the space program has ceased and civilization itself seems on the wane. Images of waste, abandonment, emptiness and desolation recurtoppling towers, dead astronauts circling the Earth endlessly, deserts, empty swimming pools. In "News from the Sun," life itself is slowly draining away as people are increasingly subject to long fugue states, recalling Eliot's line, "Not with a bang but a whimper." In the title story, the protagonist alternately wanders a deserted Canaveral and tends his dying wife. Ballard writes a clear, flawless prose, rich in deft phrase and vivid imagery. This book is not for the ray-gun and bug-eyed monster crowd.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Spacey, surreal, dreamy
By A Customer
Ballard repeats, develops, and resolves his ideas about the psychological impact of space-travel and the temptation of breaking out of the constraints of Time. It's almost like watching someone hone a chess game, moving similar characters around in a similar fashion, but the small changes make all the difference...The reader is consoled for the narrative similarities by some of Ballard's most vivid imagery--sun-bleached aviators and the Cubist beauty of a world released from the fourth dimension. Two stories break away from this somewhat; one is a journey into the Amazon jungle in search of a downed spacecraft that gives a nod to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. In addition, the last story in the anthology, unusually down to earth (for Ballard) and set in an unnamed tropical/South American location, seems almost like a collaboration between Ballard and--possibly--Ray Bradbury. A worthwhile read for a Ballard fan, a touch challenging for other readers.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
The History of the Future
By cargo
In 1968, the day after the Apollo moon landing, PanAm, one of the USA's biggest airlines at the time, began accepting reservations for flights to the moon. NASA, some time later, announced plans for a permanent moon base by the 1980s. It is difficult for someone who was not much more than a twinkle in someone's eye at the time, to imagine the mood of optimism that surrounded the landings and the extent to which it entered the psyche and fired the imagination.
Ballard's collection of short stories presented in "Memories of the Space Age" were written between 1962 and 1985, spanning the moon landings and shuttle flight and are largely a reaction to that optimistic mood. The reader is placed in a recogniseable future and shown back over the desolate terrain of the space race. The grand and rotting folly of the Cape Canaveral launching towers populate many of the stories yet it is often seen from a distance - from the long-shadowed, evening enclosures of equally rotting tourist hotels. Hotels that might once have served as layovers for space tourists.
Ballard's memories are the future memories of 1960s consumerism which manifested in aerodynamically designed fridges and toasters. He is fascinated with the way science shapes itself in the popular mind. We are like the cargo cult in the story "A Question of Re-Entry" who stumble across a re-entry capsule. We are the cargo cult of tourism, the consumption of destination, the consumption of science. Ballard questions these apropriations of science in the service of tourism/consumerism but it is with a dream logic that is no logic at all.
'Where are we going and what for?'
We are like the character Melville from "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island". He dreams of the journey and the pull is strong, but he doesn't know why or even exactly where it is. He shuns offers of journeys to other exotic locales as he works at freeing his aircraft (creating the means) to go there. In the end we leave him as he watches the wind cover his aircraft once again with sand.
The antidote to this is Scranton, the ex-astronaut in "The Man Who Walked on the Moon", the penultimate story. When asked what it was like to *be* on the moon he replies that it was "just like being here." In what way does time and space really shape our existence?
Ballard is in fine form, his seemingly languid prose delivers compact descriptions and dream-like action to form an open narrative that requires and rewards interrogation. Likewise, the accompanying illustrations by Jefferey Potter are complex and multi-layered. The images both set a scene and challenge it by their surreal detail and juxtaposition of such incongruous elements as the space shuttle with a Sopwith Camel.
I have offered one of many possible readings of this book which is truly dense with meaning. I mentioned that the space age optimism that Ballard comments on is distant history to my generation, however, we do live in an age when a similar optimism pervades the use of information and communication technologies and it is in this light that Ballard makes sense to me. In fact, in many ways, there is a direct lineage from Ballard's musings on the 'space age' and more recent cyberpunk authors' musings on the 'information age'. Perhaps we need to take stock in apropriations of our new 'space age' - communications technology - when we are faced with the future memory of an internet fridge. Is this just aerodynamic styling for the 21st century?
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
End of "The Dream"
By A Customer
I read the book several years ago in its Arkham House first ed. It floored me and has stayed with me ever since. These stories are amazing work. The idea, from one of the Canaveral stories, of people taking pieces of dead astronauts and making them into objects of religious veneration was astounding, and seemingly incredible until pieces of Columbia began to show up on eBay. This is simply one of the finest collections of sociological SF ever written--period. Ballard is proactive and prophetic here; I've read this collection again and again, and it's probably most haunting for those of us born during the Camelot era. We watched as Apollo 11 touched down and then we dreamed of space tourism to the moon and Mars bases by 2000. Now, as The Dream (with a capital D) of space travel limps along like a blind, poor beggar attacked by feral dogs, I keep returning to Ballard's collection. Read it, as my students will do this year, and weep for a lost dream.
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