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  1. The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard, 2001-07-06
  2. The Kindness of Women: A Novel by J. G. Ballard, 2007-11-27
  3. The Four-Dimensional Nightmare by J G Ballard, 1965
  4. Concrete Island: A Novel by J. G. Ballard, 2001-10-05
  5. RUNNING WILD. by J.G. Ballard, 1989-01-01
  6. Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, 2005-03-01
  7. PASSPORT TO ETERNITY by J. G. Ballard, 1963
  8. Mitos Del Futuro Proximo (Spanish Edition) by J. G. Ballard, 2002-11
  9. Noches De Cocaina (Spanish Edition) by J. G. Ballard, 2003-05
  10. La Isla de Cemento (Spanish Edition) by J. G. Ballard, 2004-01
  11. Spa-Milenio Negro (Spanish Edition) by J. G. Ballard, Jimi A. Ballard, 2004-11
  12. Compania de suenos ilimitada/ The Unlimited Dream Company (Spanish Edition) by J. G. Ballard, 2009-06-30
  13. High Rise (Flamingo Modern Classic) by J. G. Ballard, 1998-01-03
  14. Chronopolis,: And other stories, by J. G Ballard, 1971

21. Featured Author: J. G. Ballard
REVIEWS OF J. G. ballard S EARLIER BOOKS; The Crystal World (1966) ballard, one of the most elegant of dark fantasists, brews up a special chemical
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  • The Crystal World
    "Ballard, one of the most elegant of dark fantasists, brews up a special chemical change in 'The Crystal World' and produces a haunting shocker."
  • The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
    "A rare order of intelligence breathes around these stories . . . Perhaps that label of 'Sci-Fi' will drop off, and we can see Mr. Ballard for what he is: a profound moralist who has grappled with the ugly devils of our own time and given us a good number of sad, beautiful stories."
  • Love and Napalm ,' reviewed by Paul Theroux
    "[H]ere the novelist does more than botanize on the graves of mutilated peasants and famous victims he blackmails us with our sentiment and outrages our compassion . . . It is not his choice of subject, but his celebration of it, that is monstrous."
  • Crash
    ". . . hands-down, the most repulsive book I've yet to come across. . . . a crazed, morbid roundelay of dismemberment and sexual perversion."
  • 22. JG Ballard's Autobiography Excerpt And Sad News Of Cancer - Boing Boing
    The Times ran an excerpt of surrealist science fiction author JG ballard s forthcoming autobiography, Miracles Of Life. ballard, my favorite living novelist
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    JG Ballard's autobiography excerpt and sad news of cancer
    Posted by David Pescovitz , January 21, 2008 10:07 AM permalink The Times ran an excerpt of surrealist science fiction author JG Ballard's forthcoming autobiography, Miracles Of Life. Ballard, my favorite living novelist, wrote such mindbending books as Crash, Concrete Island, and Cocaine Nights. His boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai became the book, and movie, Empire of the Sun. Accompanying the excerpt from the new autobiography is a brief profile of Ballard that publicly reveals for the first time that he has advanced prostate cancer. I'm very saddened by this news and wish him comfort. From the interview: Ballard is courteous and genial in a slightly donnish way. At 77, he takes his time assembling his thoughts, but they remain unflinching and provocative, expressed with the verbal tics of his colonial background. But time, the malleable stuff of his science fiction, is running out. After being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2006, he sat down at his electric typewriter – “The computer age came too late for me” – and rapidly wrote his autobiography.
    It is a remarkable story, told modestly and with great eloquence. If Ballard’s Shanghai years seemed like a fantasy to him, his subsequent life reads like even stranger fiction. His agenda to pin down reality led him to cut up corpses as a medical student and to provoke uproar by speculating on the links between sex and smashed cars in his novel Crash.

    23. A Handful Of Dust | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
    A handful of dust. The modernists wanted to strip the world of mystery and emotion. No wonder they excelled at the architecture of death, says JG ballard
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    24. J.G. Ballard Biography (Writer) — Infoplease.com
    Biography of JG ballard, The author of Empire of the Sun and Crash.
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      Writer Born: 15 November 1930 Birthplace: Shanghai, China Best known as: The author of Empire of the Sun and Crash 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

    25. Strange Horizons Articles: Evolution Of A Moralist: J.G. Ballard In The 21st Cen
    I first read J.G. ballard s stories as a sixteenyear-old living in the post-industrial molder of Daytona Beach, Florida—the same year I saw, while standing
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        19 July 2004 I first read J.G. Ballard's Challenger explode in a white pillar of smoke. Ballard taught me how to see that wound in the sky. In a recent interview with RE/Search Publications Crash Super-Cannes . "A voluntary and sensible psychopathology is the only way we can impose a shared moral order." David Cronenberg , the machine operas of Survival Research Laboratories , and music that ranges from punk to industrial to techno. With the releases in the United Kingdom of his door-stopping Complete Short Stories and the novel Millennium People , together with a new volume of interviews from RE/Search Publications, we can finally see Ballard whole and as the moralist that he is, standing at the intersection of Jonathan Swift and Salvador Dali.
        II. The Only Truly Alien Planet
        A British national born in Shanghai in 1930 and interned by the Japanese during World War II, a former medical student and RAF pilot, Ballard published his first short story, "Prima Belladonna," in 1956 in Science Fantasy That changed in 1960 with the appearance of "The Voices of Time" in the legendary New Worlds magazine, edited by Michael Moorcock. From the first cryptic sentence of "The Voices of Time," Ballard's private iconography comes into focus like the moon's craters through a telescope: "Later Powers often thought of Whitby, and the strange grooves the biologist had cut, apparently at random, all over the floor of the empty swimming pool." That swimming pool would become a totem for Ballard readers, as would tattered billboards, sand-reefs, and dead astronauts. In "The Voices of Time" the whole world is falling asleep, victim to an apocalyptic narcolepsy. As the desert hospitals fill with "the vanguard of a vast somnambulist army massing for its last march," his neurosurgeon protagonist gives up trying to save his patients or himself, embracing this unhurried, eerie apocalypse as a pathway to a higher stage of human evolution.

    26. Miguel Cortez: J.G. Ballard
    excerpt from a BBC interview with J.G. ballard Virtual reality is something slightly different. I mean I take for granted that eventually virtual reality
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    excerpt from a BBC interview with J.G. Ballard:
    "Virtual reality is something slightly different. I mean I take for granted that eventually virtual reality systems will be available to us which create a simulated reality that is more convincing than that which our central nervous systems create. I mean one must remember the brain is itself a virtual reality machine, the illusion we have of the real world, of factories and streets and office blocks and other people talking to us is itself a virtual reality simulation generated by our brains. I think when the first true virtual reality systems become available, and contain more visual information and are more visually convincing than ordinary reality, the temptation for the human race will be to enter this virtual reality system and close the door behind it. I mean, I think there's a danger there because one will really be able to enter into a fantasy world which, unlike all fantasies in the past, would be more convincing than everyday reality."
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    27. J.G. Ballard
    JG ballard is the author of numerous books, including Empire of the Sun, the underground classic Crash, and The Kindness of Women.
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    "I would say that if one had to categorize the future in one word, it would be that word 'home.' Just as the 20th century has been the age of mobility, largely through the motor car, so the next era will be one in which instead of having to seek out oneÕs adventures through travel, one creates them, in whatever form one chooses, in one's home." More Authors By Name:
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    28. JG Ballard | Magazine | The Observer
    JG ballard. 71, the author of numerous books, including Cocaine Nights and Empire of the Sun. Has been shortlisted for the Booker prize Kate Mikhail
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    29. J. G. Ballard Quotes
    10 quotes and quotations by JG ballard. J. G. ballard Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. J. G. ballard
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    Nationality: British Find on Amazon: J. G. Ballard Related Authors: George Eliot George Orwell Virginia Woolf Neil Gaiman ... Thomas Day A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. J. G. Ballard Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. J. G. Ballard Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. J. G. Ballard Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. J. G. Ballard Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. J. G. Ballard

    30. JG Ballard: The Drowned World - An Infinity Plus Review
    The writing and stylisation, the use of symbols and the dreamlike, hypnotic quality of the story are beautifully effective an interesting volume,
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    The Drowned World (SF Masterworks No17) This is part of the Masterworks Series, being issued now by Orion. It's an interesting volume, not least because it reads very much as a book of its time. Although it is set in a far future, after the second millennium, when solar storms have caused catastrophic global warming, the characters and their drama are a story which is long on intellectual detachment and short on 'real life drama' as that might be narrated in today's climate of extreme self-awareness. However, in spite of its sense of remove and of the whole thing being a thought experiment, the book has its fascination and this comes from the strength of the writing. The events take place in a small series of lagoons, built up over a Northern European city by vast tides of silt, flushed from the old landscape by glacial and polar melt-water. Nowhere is Ballard more successful than in his vivid evocations of this primal swampland with its eternally burning sun, flat water and teeming, gigantic lifeforms. Ever present in the text and always freshly seen, this zone is so real that you can feel the stifling humidity - it's a relief to feel the breeze from turning a page. Within this cauldron a small set of people embark on the final leg of a powerful inward journey. The viewpoint character, Kerans, is a biologist, documenting the new lifeforms being thrown up by the severe climate change. The project is pointless because the changes are still occurring and there is almost no interest in the results of the work, in fact no sense at all of an outside world still existing beyond the huge trees and the burning sky. Here the central figures of the drama hope to escape evacuation to the safer north, and to finish their psychological descent through genetic time - reaching down to 'lumbar spine memory' - to a state of being which is perfectly fitted for this new Triassic era, and which longs to exist there.

    31. RE/Search Publications Books J.G. Ballard Conversations
    J.G. ballard is the Dr Moreau of British fiction, creator of controlled environments and outof-control dystopias ballard understands the transformation
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    Reviews: Never has Ballard sounded so concerned, fatherly, or political. (In an earlier, 1984 RE/Search interview, Ballard impishly exclaims, "I want more nuclear weapons!") The interviews [in the new RE/Search book] make it abundantly clear that while Ballard has always proclaimed the death of reason and the visceral origins of technology, he now sees these developments as almost wholly negative. San Francisco Bay Guardian
    You get a splendid window into the warped Ballard universe, as he improvises off the cuff about almost everything, especially car crashes. Metro Silicon Valley
    J.G. Ballard is the Dr Moreau of British fiction, creator of controlled environments and out-of-control dystopias...Ballard understands the transformation technology may effect on human desire. The Observer
    'Sex times Technology equals The Future,' proposed J.G. Ballard in 1972. For those who can't wait: be forewarned: the future never comes. With its promise of arousal and endlessly deferred climax, the formula, as quoted in a fabulous if messily designed [?] new volume of interviews called JG Ballard Conversations (RE/Search Publications, $19.99).

    32. J. G. Ballard - A Collector's Guide
    These web pages are intended as a helping hand to anyone interested in collecting books, stories, and other material by the British author J. G. ballard.
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    J. G. BALLARD - A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE These web pages are intended as a 'helping hand' to anyone interested in collecting books, stories, and other material by the British author J. G. Ballard. There are sections on: Novels Short story collections Nonfiction books Short stories ... Ballard in Ambit magazine There are further details of what's covered on this site, together with notes on collecting Ballard More on Ballard: If you're interested in JGB, you should take a look at Simon Sellars' Ballardian website, chock full of interviews, reviews, and reports on the way the world reflects Ballard's obsessions. Visit Rick McGrath's web pages - not just pictures of the covers of Ballard's books, but much else of JGB interest besides. And take a look at the discussion of Ballard's book The Atrocity Exhibition , by myself, Rick McGrath, David Pringle, and others. Credits: These pages could not have been put together without the sterling work of Ballard's chief bibliographer, David Pringle. Most of the cover photos are from my own collection, and most of those that aren't have been nicked from Rick McGrath Any comments, corrections, updates, etc:

    33. Word Riot
    Empire of the Sun lays bare J.G. ballard. These are the experiences that made J.G. ballard has seen the horrors. His storytelling shows us how strange
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    MySpace profile for JG ballard with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
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    36. 99 StellaVista * J.G. Ballard Resource * Index And Online Bookstore
    JG ballard Resource details of novels and short story collections, online bookstore, photos and links.
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    37. J. G. Ballard - Wikiquote
    A story by J. G. ballard, as you know, calls for people who don t think. One begins with characters who regard the physical universe as a mysterious and
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      • All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or ancient Egypt, is reassimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonise past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality in attractive and instantly appealing forms.
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          • "Introduction" to Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dali By the time I came to England at the age of sixteen I'd seen a great variety of landscapes. I think the English landscape was the only landscape I'd come across which didn't mean anything, particularly the urban landscape. England seemed to be very dull, because I'd been brought up at a much lower latitude - the same latitude as the places which are my real spiritual home as I sometimes think: Los Angeles and Casablanca. I'm sure this is something one perceives - I mean the angle of light, density of light. I'm always much happier in the south - Spain, Greece - than I am anywhere else. The English one, oddly enough, didn't mean anything. I didn't like it, it seemed odd. England was a place that was totally exhausted.

    38. JG Ballard And A Quote About Nature | Ask MetaFilter
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    JG Ballard said something about our pornography-addicted culture being due to a disconnect with nature, but I don't have an exact quote. So with hat in hand, I appeal to the hive mind.
    I must've read it in a RE/SEARCH mag many years ago, but I don't have any of them kicking around anymore. Any reference to this compelling statement would be appreciated. posted by survivorman to (2 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite " A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction ," from "News from the Sun" in Myths of the Near Future
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    39. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: J.G. Ballard
    The J.G. ballard Collection of First and Variant Editions 1977; The Best Short Stories of J. G. ballard Short story collection 1978 March 1995,
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    Billenium
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    Chronopolis
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    Cocaine Nights
    September 1996, HarperCollins Flamingo (UK) ISBN:0-002-24135-8 Amazon.co.uk

    40. BLDGBLOG: Silt
    Meanwhile – though I repeat myself – these bring to mind J.G. ballard s novel The Drowned World, with its vision of a flooded, neotropical Europe,
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