Mar 10
Good Show Sir Comments: “Dear, can we go to an ordinary resort next holiday? This concrete beach is hard on my arse.”
Published 1976
Good Show Sir Comments: “Dear, can we go to an ordinary resort next holiday? This concrete beach is hard on my arse.”
Published 1976
March 10th, 2022 at 10:08 am
I’ve gotta hand it too them. Trying to sell Ballard as some kind of Wilbur Smith takes some cajones. But at least there’s the strange sex. You can always count on strange sex.
March 10th, 2022 at 10:30 am
I remember the savagery and survival, but the strange sex must have been left out of my copy…
March 10th, 2022 at 11:20 am
Does the British healthcare system cover sex injuries?
I haven’t ventured into the land of academia for a book in a long time. Available in a downloadable PDF. Footnotes galore.
http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2015articles/article5.html
March 10th, 2022 at 2:04 pm
I would have gone with: “A stunning STORY of savagery strange sex and survival”.
For the alliteration.
March 10th, 2022 at 2:09 pm
I wonder if the president of Concrete Island is the Block Head.
March 10th, 2022 at 4:25 pm
In an alternate timeline, the kal-if-fee has quite a different outcome when T’Pring chooses McCoy as her champion instead of Kirk.
March 10th, 2022 at 4:40 pm
“Yes, it’s a crutch, but it doubles as a mini-bazooka. First the savagery, then the strange sex, you know. Better cover up and watch out for the back blast, dear.”
March 10th, 2022 at 5:43 pm
Keeping lookout while you pee in the wild. He’s a keeper.
March 10th, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Looks more like rubbish island. I think we’re in need of a small space sheep?
So “severely injured people sex” is another one of Ballard’s fetishes? I suppose it follows logically from the car crash kink.
March 10th, 2022 at 7:58 pm
That car crash was so bad it blew her clothes off. Good thing Gregory Peck brought along a crutch. Just in case.
March 10th, 2022 at 9:24 pm
A stunning novel of savagery, strange sex – and pretentiousness…
March 10th, 2022 at 10:43 pm
“Quiet, woman! Can’t you see I’m gazing manfully into the distance?”
David Janssen is firing his agent the minute he gets out of here.
In the remake, Sam Neill is firing his agent, etc.
I feel “survival” should be higher up the list, but it’s Ballard.
He’s got 2 shirts on; a gentleman would give her one to cover up, but it’s Ballard.
March 10th, 2022 at 10:51 pm
It looks like they’re stranded on a concrete *traffic island.* is that the Marble Arch mound behind them? No wonder they look desperate. Can’t explain the nudity though- maybe global warming has hit London particularly severely.
March 10th, 2022 at 11:55 pm
@JJYoyo: possibly inspiring this.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4381930/
March 11th, 2022 at 1:02 am
@Bruce: this looks absolutely brilliant.
March 21st, 2022 at 1:38 pm
@GSS ex-noob, Sam Neill would have limped over and offered the lady his shirt to cover herself with. He is (in my limited experience anyway) quite a decent person!
March 31st, 2022 at 3:19 am
Publisher to artist with deadline looming: We’re not going with the zombie story after all; the new story has “sex” in the title – make that guy look less dead and add a nekkid woman in the background – that’ll do.
Artist: (sigh) Sure…