Ballardian

© Metro-Centre, 2007.

+ Kingdom Come has finally been published in paperback, but check out the cover they’ve given it. It looks like a poster from Logan’s Run. McGrath and I have our suspicions that the Metro-Centre website is an official HarperCollins production set up to promote the book. If so, why couldn’t they have made use of that site’s aesthetic — the one that has produced such sublime imagery, especially now they’re into their ‘Mad is Bad; Bad is Good’ phase (although McGrath’s less keen on this than I am).

Never mind. The paperback, David Pringle informs us, features a new interview with Ballard in the back, some of which you can find here. There are no new revelations, as David notes, although Ballard mentions his scotch habit once again, which surprises me. I thought he was on the gin and tonic these days.