SOURCE: “Stranger than Fiction,” in New Statesman & Society, November 9, 1990, p. 38.
In the following review of War Fever, Diski finds Ballard's stories “stiff” and unimaginative in light of more extraordinary events precipitating the end of the Cold War.
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