An incisive and moving new critical biography of one of the nuclear age’s greatest visionaries.
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The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2026. 496 pages.
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