Olá, América! (Caminho Ficção Científica #83)

Olá, América! (1981) '-' «O Império do Sol» consagrou mundialmente o nome de J. G. Ballard. Mas Ballard já tinha atrás de si uma obra particularmente admirável no domínio da ficção científica. «Olá, América!» é um dos seus livros mais famosos, em que um grupo de novos «peregrinos» retomam contacto com uma América abandonada, desembarcando numa Nova Iorque deserta e silenciosa. Depois, atravessam o continente, sempre mais para oeste, até ao Pacífico, encontrando pelo caminho Eisenhower, Nixon, Sinatra, John Wayne e Charles Manson. Mas será que os encontraram? Leia este livro espantoso e não se esqueça que a FC Caminho de Bolso já publicou de Ballard «O mundo de Cristal» (nº 23) e «Aparelho Voador a baixa Altitude» (nº 49). . .

"Hello America": A Novel [Paperback / ISBN: 0871404184] – by J. G. Ballard '-' Science Fiction, Contemporary, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic. Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the now climatically mutated continent. But America is unrecognizable―the Bering Strait has been dammed and much of the country has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the bizarre remnants of a disintegrated culture. The expedition sets off from Manhattan on a cross-country journey, through Holiday Inns and abandoned theme parks, to uncover a shocking new power in the heart of Las Vegas. . .

[Reviews] "This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century." ―Guardian

“Enter Mr Ballard's worlds and you become entranced in a séance difficult to break out of, so powerful is his method.” (The Times (London))

“A mythically resonant epic journey…a joy―witty, playful, moving, mythic, poetic.” (Literary Review)

[About the Author]: J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.

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