Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

by Mike Holliday Ballard’s oeuvre has many highlights: the 1960s ‘disaster trilogy’ of novels, Crash, Empire of the Sun, and short stories such as ‘The Voices of Time’ and ‘The Terminal Beach’. Not surprisingly, much of the secondary literature tends to conc...