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"For me, impossible not to vote for JG Ballard’s Complete Stories (WW Norton) – I agreed to write about it for my hometown newspaper, thinking I could bat something out on my teenage recollection of Ballard’s greatness, but decided to crack the book open and soon found myself swallowed inside. Reading the entire volume in sequence, as I did, two or three stories a night for most of July and August, became a kind of mind-meld, and Ballard’s complete tales revealed themselves to me not only as a great, obsessive fictional voyage, but an epic covert autobiography of the writer behind them."
