1. J.G. Ballard: Www.jgballard.com The definitive collection of links for information about British writer JG ballard. http://www.jgballard.com/

jgballard.com jgb sites Ballardian JGB Mailing list JGB Book Cover collection: Rick McGrath JG Ballard: 20th Century Chronicler :: new JG Ballard: Miracles Of Life JGB's autobiographical memoir, to be published February 2008 Preorder Miracles Of Life at Amazon.co.uk jgb links JG Ballard - Kingdom Come Interview Easily the best interview with JG Ballard after the recent publication of Kingdom Come was done by Simon at Ballardian.com Iain Sinclair On JGB Excellent and extensive interview with Iain Sinclair about Ballard over at Ballardian.com JG Ballard: Kingdom Come More info on JGB's new novel, Kingdom Come, which is due out on 4th September: Amazon now features the cover art for Kingdom Come, while the HarperCollins website FireAndWater.com mentions that there will be two events which Ballard will presumably be attending: Thu 14 September - Institute of Education, London, WC1 There's no other info about the events on the Harper site at the moment, unfortunately. JGB on Empire Of The Sun JGB on writing Empire Of The Sun and the subsequent Spielberg film - a brilliant piece in The Guardian "During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence. But how could I raise this Titanic of memories? Brought up from the sea bed, the golden memory hoard could turn out to be dross. Besides, there are things that the novel can't easily handle. I could manage my changing relations with my parents, my 13-year-old's infatuation with the war, and the sudden irruption into our lives of American air power. But how do you convey the casual surrealism of war, the deep silence of abandoned villages and paddy fields, the strange normality of a dead Japanese soldier lying by the road like an unwanted piece of luggage?

2. J. G. Ballard - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The adjective ballardian , defined as resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in JG ballard s novels and stories, especially dystopian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard

J. G. Ballard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search J.G. Ballard Born 15 November Shanghai China Occupation novelist, short fiction writer Genres science fiction dystopia Literary movement ... New Wave Influences William S. Burroughs Surrealism Influenced Lee Killough Bruce Sterling Will Self Alex Garland ... Ken MacLeod James Graham Ballard (born 15 November in Shanghai ) is a British writer . He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction . His best known books are the controversial Crash , and the autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun , both of which have been adapted to film. The adjective "Ballardian", defined as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in JG Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments", has been included in the Collins English Dictionary A recent interview in The Sunday Times , promoting Ballard's forthcoming autobiography, revealed that the Ballard was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2006. Contents Biography Shanghai England and Canada Full-time writing career ... edit Biography edit Shanghai Ballard's father was a chemist at a Manchester -headquartered textile firm, the Calico Printers Association, and became chairman and managing director of its

3. Ballardian: The World Of J.G. Ballard This is an English translation of an interview with JG ballard by Alexander Gutzmer, originally published in German by Welt am Sonntag, 3 June 2007. http://www.ballardian.com/

Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard HOME ABOUT BALLARDOSPHERE ... 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies Latest features The Times is featuring an extract from Ballard’s forthcoming autobiography, Miracles of Life. There’s also an accompanying interview, in which it’s revealed that Ballard has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Here’s a selection of visual art I’ve recently come across, all directly inspired by or referencing themes in Ballard’s work. Sam Scoggins has finally digitised his ‘lost’ 1983 quasi-doco on Ballard, loosely structured around themes found in The Unlimited Dream Company. There are plans for ballardian.com to interview Sam, but for now, enjoy the film. William Viney explores how High-Rise, Concrete Island, and “The Ultimate City” contain familiar visual landscapes. However, each of these recognisable aspects of urban experience is rendered unfamiliar through the pervasive renegotiation of waste categories. Latest interviews This is an English translation of an interview with J.G. Ballard by Alexander Gutzmer, originally published in German by Welt am Sonntag, 3 June 2007. Latest reviews A review of Demanding the Impossible, the Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, held at Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 5-7.

4. Scriptorium - J. G. Ballard Working quietly over the last forty years from the domestic seclusion of a London suburb, J.G. ballard has proven to be one of the world s most imaginative http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/ballard.html

By Richard Behrens J. G. Ballard "Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessel are the written mythologies of memory and desire." J.G. Ballard Introduction Working quietly over the last forty years from the domestic seclusion of a London suburb, J.G. Ballard has proven to be one of the world's most imaginative and thought-provoking writers. His books are primarily known to readers of science fiction, but he has produced work that crosses many boundaries, borrowing from and blending several genres, fusing action adventure with hard science, psychiatry with surrealism, and postmodernism with pulp narratives. His stories, often hallucinatory or dreamlike in character, are futurist predictions of where technology, media and the internal logic of our own suburban landscapes may be leading us. Ballard has described his mission as writing "a mythology of the future" and that is about as accurate a label as you can give to his collected works. To a mainstream audience, he is the author of Empire of the Sun a novel about his wartime experiences in China, and

5. Ballard, JG | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books JG ballard (1930). I have - I won t say happy - not unpleasant memories of the camp. I remember a lot of the casual brutality and beatings-up that went on http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-15,00.html

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6. BBC - BBC Four Profile - JG Ballard The novels Empire of the Sun and Crash have brought him mainstream success and controversy in equal measure, but JG ballard remains one of our most http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/ballard.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 26 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage BBC Television ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! JG BALLARD: PROFILE Monday 6 October 2003 11pm-11.40am; rpt Thursday 9 Oct midnight-12.40am The novels Empire of the Sun and Crash have brought him mainstream success and controversy in equal measure, but JG Ballard remains one of our most inventive and adventurous writers. One of his own characters once said, "I've always thought of life as a kind of disaster area" and Ballard constantly presents his disquieting, often apocalyptic, vision of a world that remains, for him, "the only alien planet". Shanghai to Shepperton Born and brought up in colonial Shanghai comfort, young James Graham Ballard saw his life change forever when, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour, Japanese forces swept into the city. The three years he spent in an internment camp moulded his view of "a world turned up-side down" and have constantly influenced his fiction. Back in Britain, he abandoned his medical studies at Cambridge to become a full-time writer, and his first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. As with many of his works, the wanderings of his characters' minds are charted as minutely as the external world they inhabit. The Drought, The Wind from Nowhere and The Crystal World all strengthened his reputation for bleak but beautiful chronicles of a post-Hiroshima age.

7. JG Ballard: Extreme Metaphor: A Crash Course In The Fiction Of JG Ballard · Spi Chris Hall gives a crash course in the fiction of JG ballard Existing somewhere between the manifest edifices of Crash and Empire Of The Sun, the rest of JG http://www.spikemagazine.com/0697lard.htm

SpikeMagazine.com Book Reviews Interviews Features ... Contact Contributor Chris Hall gives a crash course in the fiction of JG Ballard Existing somewhere between the manifest edifices of Crash and Empire Of The Sun, Crash, Empire Of The Sun, will find the rest of his work as resonant and thought-provoking as these two novels. With the controversy and critical acclaim that has surrounded film adaptation of Crash, reductio ad absurdum, Crash, High Rise, Concrete Island, The Atrocity Exhibition ) have been continually read as showing nihilistic or pessimistic obsession with decay, destruction and disaster. William Burroughs ). Moreover, by the time he was 13, he had witnessed every kind of conceivable human horror from a childhood spent interned in Lunghua, Japan. It is as if Ballard has had this imprinted upon his mind, hardwired as the template with which he views the world, filtered through and fused with it. Perhaps for this reason his stories, especially Crash

8. J.G. Ballard Writer Empire of the Sun. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050618/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP J.G. BALLARD DVD VHS CD IMDb J.G. Ballard Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography other works publicity contact Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips J.G. Ballard advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: 15 November Shanghai, China more Trivia: His novel "Crash" (1973) was rejected by a publishing house reader who wrote... more Alternate Names: James G. Ballard Filmography Jump to filmography as: Writer Self Writer: In Production High Rise in production (novel) Home (2003) (TV) (short story) Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002) (story) ... aka Low-Flying Aircraft (International: English title) The Atrocity Exhibition (2000) (novel) Crash (1996/I) (book) Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers (1994) (writings) Minus One (1991) (story) ... aka J.G. Ballard's Minus One (USA) Empire of the Sun (1987) (novel) When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) (story) Gulliver in Space TV episode (story) Thirteen to Centaurus TV episode (story) Self: The 100 Greatest War Films (2005) (TV) .... Himself

9. JG Ballard 20th Century Chronicler A site about the life and work of novelist JG ballard. http://www.solaris-books.co.uk/Ballard/

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10. Salon | J.G. Ballard On William S. Burroughs' Naked Truth Of the many authors who have acknowledged his influence, few have been as unflinching or provocative as J.G. ballard. From the chromey autoeroticism of http://www.salon.com/sept97/wsb970902.html

BY RICHARD KADREY AND SUZANNE STEFANAC w illiam Burroughs' raw-boned figure haunted us long before his death. For nearly half a century, he infected our literature, seeding it with his obsessions, suspicions and passions. In his brutal honesty, we began to learn something new about truth and humor and maybe even love. Of the many authors who have acknowledged his influence, few have been as unflinching or provocative as J.G. Ballard. From the chromey auto-eroticism of "Crash" to the surrendered innocence of "Empire of the Sun," Ballard has refined a style that cuts through the moralism and sentimentality that blunt so much contemporary writing. After Burroughs' death, Ballard spoke to us by phone from his home in Shepperton, England. William Burroughs was someone who was suspicious of language and words, but his whole life was defined by them. Do you see a contradiction here? Perhaps the essential writer's contradiction? I think Burroughs was very much aware of the way in which language could be manipulated to mean absolutely the opposite of what it seems to mean. But that's something he shared with George Orwell. He was always trying to go through the screen of language to find some sort of truth that lay on the other side. I think his whole cut-up approach was an attempt to cut through the apparent manifest content of language to what he hoped might be some sort of more truthful world. A world of meaning that lay beyond. In books like "The Ticket that Exploded" and "The Soft Machine," you see this attempt to go through language to something beyond. If there is a paradox, I think it lies somewhere here.

11. J.G. Ballard: A Who2 Profile JG ballard used his own childhood in a Japanese prison camp as the basis for his 1984 novel Empire of the Sun. As a young man he settled in. http://www.who2.com/jgballard.html

@import url("http://www.who2.com/css/standard_gamma.css"); Find Famous People Fast! Who2 FAQ Who2 Blog For Students Contact Who2 Browse by Name: A B C D ... Z J.G. Ballard Writer Name at birth: James Graham Ballard J.G. Ballard used his own childhood in a Japanese prison camp as the basis for his 1984 novel Empire of the Sun . As a young man he settled in Shepperton, England and, after studying medicine, began a career as a writer. Though Empire of the Sun is a fairly mainstream story, Ballard's other books are not easily classified; some call them science fiction, others simply creepy or disturbing. They generally combine sex, surgery and technology as part of a psychoanalytical depiction of the modern human condition. Ballard is also the author of Crash (1973), which was made into a 1996 movie starring Holly Hunter and James Spader Empire of the Sun had already been made into a movie in 1987, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring a young Christian Bale as the Ballard-like boy, Jim.) Ballard's other books include The Crystal World High-rise The Day of Creation (1987) and Cocaine Nights (1996). He published an autobiography

12. J G Ballard A bibliography of JG ballard s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/j-g-ballard/

Fantastic Fiction Authors B J G Ballard Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U J G Ballard (James Graham Ballard) Search Authors Search Books About J G Ballard J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China where his father was a businessman. After the attack on Pearl Harbour, Ballard and his family were placed in a civilian prison camp. They returned to England in 1946. After two years at Cambridge, where he read medicine, Ballard worked as a copywriter and a Covent Garden porter before going to Canada with the RAF. In 1956 his first short story was published in New Worlds and he took a full-time job on a technical journal, moving on to become assistant editor of a scientific journal, where he stayed until 1961. His first novel, 'The Drowned World', was written in the same year. Ballard has now been at the forefront of modern British fiction writing for over three decades, and today he is a best-selling writer of international stature.

13. U B U W E B - Film & Video: J.G. Ballard Following J.G. ballard from Shepperton to Shanghai and back, looking at the scenes of his life which inspired his autobiographical novels. http://www.ubu.com/film/ballard.html

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14. J.G. Ballard J.G. ballard has long worked with intriguing structures. The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), for example, is composed of a series of highly compressed short http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0093.html

J.G. Ballard J.G. Ballard has long worked with intriguing structures. The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), for example, is composed of a series of highly compressed short stories which Ballard calls "condensed novels." These are linked thematically and formally. Short paragraphs, stripped of most of the novel 's traditional machinery of logical, cause and effect narrative, clinically observe the breakdown of the modern psyche. The line between interiority and exteriority, between the fragmented consciousness of the central characters and the violent, mediatized world in which they live, collapses. The "death of affect," the loss of the capacity for an emotive response resulting from the overstimulation of the sensory apparatus in modern life, yields, in Ballard's always perverse logic, to a desire that is at once purely thanatotic and liberating. Ballard's striking mixture of scientific detachment and obsession are evident in his use of such devices as itemized lists and a surrealist interest in collage as a narrative form: "But isn't Kennedy already dead?"

15. Literary Encyclopedia: J. G. Ballard Citation Jeannette Baxter, University of East Anglia. J. G. ballard. The Literary Encyclopedia. 5 Nov. 2001. The Literary Dictionary Company. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=235

16. J. G. Ballard JG ballard at www.contemporarywriters.com Novelist, essayist and short-story writer J(ames) G(raham) ballard was born in Shanghai, China on 15 November http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth11

17. Rodcorp: How We Work: J.G. Ballard, Author On writing synopses (from J.G ballard How I write in The Times, Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How we work J.G. ballard, author http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work_jg_.html

rodcorp art, architecture, books, maps, stories, and occasionally how teams and systems work. Main How we work: J.G. Ballard, author On the routine: "Unless you're disciplined, all you end up with is a lot of empty wine bottles. All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way." On writing synopses (from J.G Ballard: How I write in The Times, 19 Sep 2000 I try to write about 1,000 words a day in longhand and then edit it very carefully later before I type if out. I have been known to stop in the middle of a sentence sometimes when I've reached my limit. But self-discipline is enormously important ½ you can't rely on inspiration or a novel would take ten years. I always prepare a very detailed synopsis before I start writing. Sometimes this will be anything up to 30,000 words in length. It's just me working out my story and my cast. I once did one for a book called The Unlimited Dream Company where the synopsis was longer than the book On archiving (Interview with Vale in RE/search 8/9.):

18. J.G. Ballard --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on JG ballard British author of science fiction set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002792/JG-Ballard

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19. JG Ballard Reminisces On His Boyhood Years In Miracles Of Life - Times Online The author JG ballard, whose boyhood years in a Japanese prison camp inspired his most famous book and film, explains why it was one of the best times of http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_ext

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20. Review Of J. G. Ballard's Empire Of The Sun - BrothersJudd.com BrothersJudd.com reviews JG ballard s Empire of the Sun Grade A+. http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/690

@import url("css/iereview.css"); Home Reviews Blog Daily ... Empire of the Sun Brothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: Novels (22) Author Info: J. G. Ballard [James Graham] [A] flash of light filled the stadium, flaring over the stands in the south-west corner of the football field, as if an immense American bomb had exploded somewhere to the north-east of Shanghai. The sentry hesitated, looking over his shoulder as the light behind him grew more intense. It faded within a few seconds, but its pale sheen covered everything within the stadium, the looted furniture in the stands, the cars behind the goal posts, the prisoners on the grass. They were sitting on the floor of a furnace heated by a second sun. -Empire of the Sun Time was when the great war books were written either by the combatants themselves or by historians. But it is uniquely the case of WWIIand uniquely a function of the fact that it was truly a "World" warthat two of the greatest, and certainly the most affecting, works of literature to emerge from the war relate the experiences of children. Anne Frank's Diary , though the War itself is necessarily off stage, is informed by our knowledge of its events, and her perilous situation is a result of the War. In

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