RaveThe Brooklyn RailA lifelong obsession with Ballard’s peculiar explorations of terrestrial existence lead to Simon Sellars’s imagined interdimensional connection with the author, a sacred bond that would never be formally christened save for one graceless photograph taken at a London Q&A. The first in UK publisher Urbanomic’s new series \'K-Pulp: Adventures in Theory-Fiction,\' the Australian Sellars’s new genre-curious book Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe is a series of descents \'into the mirror world,\' a travelogue in which all roads lead to Ballard ... Applied Ballardianism is a book about our private islands, inexplicably shored by the texts that never leave us.
