""The Day of Creation is a metaphysical adventure story dealing with complex themes–the life-giving qualities of water, the cold eye of television, obsession, love–all set in a dream Africa, as if hallucinated by Joseph Conrad."–Angela Carter
"Ballard has successfully created a new myth, a late-20th-century saga of distracted humans making a lonely voyage through time and the river to the well-spring of their parched imaginations." –"Time
"A near-classic adventure." –"The New York Times Book Review
"Lyrical, hallucinatory...virtuosic...Few authors today can approach Ballard's gift for placing his reader in a perfectly realized hypnotic world." –"The Philadelphia Inquirer
""The Day of Creation puts Ballard up with Golding, Forester, and Conrad." –"The Miami Herald