Concrete island
A 35-year-old architect is driving home from his London office when his car swerves and crashes onto a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, he climbs the embankment to seek help, but no one will stop for him and he is trapped on the island, where he remains.
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What Hacker News says
- I can recommend the excellent novels Concrete Island [0] and High-Rise [1] from the same author.
- I loved High rise and Concrete Island. He was prescient about what modern and current day society looks like.
I will give his other works a read. I tried reading Crash multiple times but it was a bit too gory for me.
- Concrete Island by JG Ballard
Libra by Don Delilo
Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
- My evil twin checked out a lot of Ballard books from the library, some of which I read and some of which I still have. I really like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Rise_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Island
I find it hard to believe that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_America
didn't have some impact on Fallout New Vegas.
- Have you read Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard?
- Maybe you know it but I think you'd also like novels by J.G. Ballard. e.g. "Concrete Island" or "High Rise".
