This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 1981 by John Ballard
Cover art by Ian Keltie

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ember, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 1981. Based on an original screenplay by John Ballard with additional material by Dennis Watlington.

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ISBN 978-0-307-97611-6 (tr. pbk.)
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