Ballard's prose is seductive and pellucid and his stories compelling....Spiked with...gnomic dialogue and black, black humor, this book is also a captivating Chandlerian mystery.–The Washington Post Book World
Ballard's fictional world [is] like no one else's.–
The Atlantic Monthly Ballard is our poet laureate of Modernism's dead zones....[Super-Cannes] achieves a brilliant, thorny ambiguity–the kind that lodges splinterlike in your imagination, and refuses to come loose.–
LA Weekly Rarely has his vision been so total, his creation so complete. Super-Cannes is as good as anything that Ballard has done before, and considering the work which that bland statement encompasses, it's the highest possible praise.–
Minneapolis Star Tribune One of his finest.–
San Francisco Chronicle