The Day of Creation

First edition. 8vo. 254pp. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine. Wraparound cover art by Paul Wright.

Price-clipped, else Very Fine.

A metaphysical adventure story set in the arid, war-torn terrain of central Africa, as a manic medic is consumed by visions of transforming the Sahara into a luxuriant jungle. "This is classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one else writes with such haunting impact." –William Boyd

[#99 in Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels, ed. David Pringle, 1989]