The Unlimited Dream Company (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: J. G. Ballard
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: Seven days in the late 1970’s
- Setting: The London suburb of Shepperton
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1970’s, Extrasensory perception or powers, England or English people, Accidents, London, Flight, Birds, Resurrection, Pilots or pilotage, Plants
- Locales: London, England
The Plot
In The Unlimited Dream Company, J. G. Ballard tells how Blake, a twenty-five-year-old misfit whose first name is never given, suddenly acquires the strange extrasensory powers to transform the tranquil English suburb of Shepperton and release all of its inhabitants into the sun. Although the exact source of Blake’s expanding psychic capacities is never given, his transformation into a man whose powers defy the laws of gravity and biology is strongly connected to his near-death experience while trapped in the sinking airplane he stole and accidentally crashed...
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