BALLARD | Corrected typescript of 'The Day of Forever'

BALLARD, J.G.

The Day of Forever, corrected typescript

autograph changes in blue ink to almost every page, comprising revisions, corrections, and erasures, marked up by copyeditor in red biro, the first page annotated in red biro with the story's magazine appearance ("N[ew] W[orlds] 170 | [pages] 9-28") and with New Worlds SF ink stamp, 34 pages, large post 4to, [1966], stapled

...Indeed it is difficult to think of anyone in the early twenty-first-century literary avant-garde—such as it still existed in Britain and the USA—who wouldn't have cited Ballard as a primary influence... (ODNB)

THE CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT OF AN IMPORTANT EARLY STORY BY J.G. BALLARD, ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL WRITERS TO EMERGE FROM BRITAIN IN THE POST-WAR DECADES. 'The Day of Forever' envisions a world in which the earth has ceased turning on its axis: in the town of Columbine Sept-Heures, where the story is set, it is constant twilight. It was first published in issue 170 of New Worlds magazine, which was then edited by Ballard's friend Michael Moorcock and provided a home for several of the more experimental writers of science fiction. This is the typescript from which the periodical publication was set. The piece was later the title-story in a collection of Ballard's stories published by Panther in 1967.  

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL BY BALLARD IS RARE ON THE MARKET.