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The book vividly reconstructs how Ballard came to write Crash, the cultural landscape in which it was written, the effect of its reception, and the toll it took on its author.
Paul March-Russell is editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction and co-founder with Una McCormack of the feminist imprint Gold SF. His previous books include The Short Story: An Introduction (2009), Modernism and Science Fiction (2015), and with Andrew M. Butler, Rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke: Centenary Essays (2022).
1. Introduction: Crash and Canonicity.- 2. Reading Crash: The Making of a Modern Myth.- 3. Writing Crash: Modernism/Science Fiction/New Worlds.- 4. Rogue Anthropology: Crash, Surrealism, and The Independent Group.- 5. Vicissitudes of the Body: Cyborgs and Animots.- 6. Moral Pornograopy: "The Woman of the Future".- 7. Conclusion: Crash and Petromodernity.