Ballardian

Following on from Ballardian’s breaking coverage of plans to open a string of Ballard Worlds (amusement parks themed after JG Ballard’s work) in Britain, we thought it was high time we paid massive respect to the original Ballard World — in Alexandria, Egypt. The original and the best — the one that started it all. Abandoned water bodies; derelict technology; dead monorails hanging against the sky like guillotines; construction works half finished, as if some terrible disaster had wiped out all traces of human life; masses of rubble and twisted metal forming complex cryptograms, their meaning inscrutable and remote, as if they were designed not for man, but for man’s absence… the Egyptian Ballard World has everything the discerning JGB fan could possibly require.