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Title:Super-Cannes
Author:J.G. Ballard
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 400 pages
Published:October 4th 2002 by Picador (first published 2000)
Categories:Fiction. Science Fiction
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Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothing, yet one day, a doctor at the clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and her husband Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain Eden-Olympia's smoothly-running surface.

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Original Title: Super-Cannes
ISBN: 0312306091 (ISBN13: 9780312306090)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2001), Tähtivaeltaja Award (2004)


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Anyone who's read say, half a dozen Ballard novels could probably identify this as such from the first paragraph. A first paragraph that stayed with me through-out the book. Indeed I re-read it twice, once at about the 1/3 mark and once right after finishing the book.One is rapidly led to believe that this novel deals with all of Ballard's normal tropes; medical doctor characters, nutters, aviation, social microcosms, veneer of civilisation which is easily ripped away. In the case of one of

Another of Ballard's dystopian novels set in a dense living situation - rather than a skyscraper, it is a residential/business park on the French Riviera packed with representatives of multinational corporations and their in-house medical staff.A private pilot, semi-retired after having been sidelined by an injury, moves there with his younger physician wife and has a lot of free time on his hands to attempt to unravel the mystery of why his wife's predecessor went on a mass-shooting rampage



It reads like something of a time out of place but very much in our time. Or is that so? Like Ballard - who I remember once saying his greatest fear for the future would be that we'd be living in some sort of Baudrillardian world w/o events - I find the world of Super-Cannes both alluring and repulsive, credible/mundane, and utterly sensational; irrationally bursting forth only to the extent to which it is repressed. I guess we sort of all find ourselves wanting more of what we want with less of

Paul Sinclair-- a pilot recovering from a leg injury-- and his young doctor wife take up residence at the French industrial park Eden-Olympia, a hub of some of the world's most powerful businesses. His wife is there to replace the previous doctor, a former lover who went on a killing spree in the industrial park and took out a dozen executives and employees. Sinclair, fascinated by the murders and-- with lots of time on his hands due to his injury-- takes it upon himself to 'investigate' the

I loved this one! I've always said about Ballard previously that the elements of his novels are out of whack. The descriptions are always amazing but the story never adds up. The descriptions are AMAZING though. The Drowned World is something I'm afraid to read again because the world of it lives in my mind, which I always think is a fragile thing.Anyway, this one gets all the elements. The world weaves with the story immaculately! An incredible Ballard experience.I maintain that his characters

Ballard was prescient, even prophetic. Written in 2K, this novel is of the utmost actuality: mass shootings, absence of a moral compass, populist and extreme-right violence. A magisterial explanation of our troubled and troubling times, Super-Cannes enthralls with its hallucinatory descriptions and clear-sighted sociological musings. Man, this story ain't reassuring, but what a ride. Using an ultra-naturalistic narrative voice, Ballard builds a world that is both real and sci-fi, convincing and