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J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard is the author of numerous books, including Concrete Island, The Kindness of Women, and Crash. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology. He lives in England.

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Empire of the Sun is now available in eBook
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This is Lincolnshire, May 2, 2013
...showcasing work from young artists, will form part of the Ballard Arts Festival. Inspired by the novels of J G Ballard, the week-long festival will take place from Monday, May 6, to Sunday, May 12, and will inhabit various locations around the city,...
Geek Syndicate, April 4, 2013
...read that inevitably rub off.  As well as Dick, I am very taken with the science fiction of J G Ballard and Alfred Bester, two very different writers, but both really amazing in their own way.  Ballard’s ability to sensualise the experience of the...
Latest 7, April 2, 2013
...I did develop a taste for Dick – Philip K. Dick that is, you bad people, and for J. G. Ballard, a writer of incredible talent whose work crosses over so many barriers. I also developed a love for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. I designed several...
New Statesman, March 12, 2013
...life begin to drain away, as the demon sings him a tender lullaby which is also his dirge. J G Ballard's  High-Rise  is a harsh and ingenious reworking of the  F6  theme, displaced into the steel-and-concrete landscapes of modern urban life. The...
Telegraph, February 19, 2013
...too ravishing not to explore further. And he sends one back, generously, to the writings of Norman Lewis, J G Ballard, Richard Jefferies, Alexander Herzen and a host of others. For that alone, his book is a pleasure to read. PLUS 1.35 p & p) Buy now from...
Garner News, February 8, 2013
...most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, on the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is...
The Scotsman, January 25, 2013
...weighted (he cites P D James, Walter Miller, Jim Crace, Nevil Shute, Kazuo Ishiguro and Doris Lessing, but not J G Ballard, John Christopher, Alice Sheldon, Pat Frank, Robert Heinlein or even Richard Jeffries). But, as he says of Norman Rush (a...
The Independent, May 31, 2013
...People love to pigeonhole. In travel this seems especially true of islands. St Barths is the chic one. Ibiza the clubby one. And the Greek island of Rhodes? Prior to my recent visit, I was led to believe by some that it was a land of antiquities. By...
London Evening Standard, May 31, 2013
...This week it was announced that Boris Johnson’s “cycling czar” Andrew Gilligan planned to decriminalise the act of driving a motor vehicle into cycle lanes or Advance Stop Lines — the “bicycle boxes” at traffic lights designed to give bikes a...
ModernMetals.com, May 29, 2013
...elements of Cedric Price’s “Fun Palace,” and Constant Nieuwenhuys’ “New Babylon,” combined with the science-fiction vision of J. G. Ballard’s “Vermilion Sands,” and Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” with the...
World News Network, May 22, 2013
...Some People Die – a detective mystery by Ross Macdonald (1951) Vermilion Sands – a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard (1971) Films and television[link] Main article: List of films and TV series set in Palm Springs, California Filming...
About, May 20, 2013
...ancestors. Read more... This Week: Paperbacks Newly released paperbacks in science-fiction and fantasy this week include books by J. G. Ballard, Ian C. Esslemont, Alan Dean Foster, Wright Jonathan, Drew Karpyshyn, Steven L. Kent, Hideyuki Kikuchi,...
World News Network, May 15, 2013
...Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein and John Huston's The African Queen . Shepperton was also the home of author J. G. Ballard and provides the setting for his novel The Unlimited Dream Company. It is also mentioned in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G....
This is Lincolnshire, May 2, 2013
...showcasing work from young artists, will form part of the Ballard Arts Festival. Inspired by the novels of J G Ballard, the week-long festival will take place from Monday, May 6, to Sunday, May 12, and will inhabit various locations around the city,...