![]() ![]() Wine war paint instead of pig blood… Chowing on Alsatian dog instead of feral pig… etc. The appeal lies more in Ballard’s literary qualities and stylistic choices rather than the novel’s ideas which are dominated (albeit, I’m being overly simplistic) by a virulent strain of “ Lord of the Flies syndrome” afflicting adults, instead of children, crammed into an “island-like” building. Ballard’s High-Rise (1975) is a fascinating yet relentlessly mono-thematic novel inspired by the effects of class conflict and urbanization on society drawing on some ideas explored in earlier SF masterpieces such as John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar (1969) and Silverberg’s The World Inside(1971) (both of which I prefer to High-Rise). ![]()
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