It was a century dominated by assassinations, cars, aeroplanes, wars, mass production and American pop culture. For me the … Crash is the story of Vaughan, a television psychologist who is fixated by the sexual power of the car crash and who wishes to die in an auto-erotic accident with Elizabeth Taylor's limousine. … High Rise (1975) is a funny, perverse and oddly believable novel about the collapse of civilisation's norms within an apartment building. Satires on … …

Excerpt from:
JG Ballard – Adrian McKinty's blog