Before he was king of body horror, David Cronenberg philosophized like a New Wave sci-fi author. The Shrouds brings him back ...

It establishes Ballard as a major British writer of the “New Wave” of science fiction. His stories bring psychological interest and an experimental literary style to science fiction themes.

By contrast, the rise of Japanese science fiction in the 1960s coincided with the explosion of New Wave speculative fiction in England and North America, and thus Japanese sf could not pursue the ...