The Washington Post, April 17th, 1988
THE DAY OF CREATION By J.G. Ballard Farrar Straus Giroux. 254 pp. $17.95 By Brigitte Weeks MANY OF the thousands who bought the paperback of J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun are going to be in for a shock when they pick up The Day of Creation. Ballard has returned to his roots with a vengeance here, leaving us wondering where to place Empire of the Sun in his puzzling but distinguished career. His creative roots are in bleak and apocalyptic science fiction, like his early novel The Drowned World, in which heat, flood and tropical vegetation gradually destroy civilization. His admirers were alw...
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