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Author:
J. G. Ballard
[James Graham]
Links:
-WIKIPEDIA: J. G. Ballard
-TRIBUTE SITE: jgballard.ca
-SHORT STORY: Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme
: J.G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time” (Literary Hub, May 2, 2024)
-RADIO PLAYS: The Stories of J G. Ballard
: These episodes of the Canadian radio drama series Vanishing Point
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-INTERVIEW: Against Entropy: Interview with J G Ballard
: (PETER RONNOV-JESSEN, August 1984, Literary Review)
-ESSAY: J. G. Ballard’s Brilliant, Not “Good” Writing
(Tom McCarthy, September 22, 2023, Paris Review)
-ESSAY: Another Prophecy Fulfilled
: Published nearly 20 years ago, the visionary writer J. G. Ballard’s final novel foreshadowed the anti-immigrant riots that roiled the U.K. this summer (Ross Barkan, August 31, 2024, airMail)
-ESSAY: Ballard predicted the collapse of the middle class
: The future will be neo-feudal (Paul Heron, August 27, 2024, UnHerd)
-ESSAY: JG Ballard was not a prophet
: The poster boy of futurology cared more for the present (MARK BLACKLOCK, 10/19/23, UnHerd)
-ESSAY: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL PROFIT: REFLECTING ON J. G. BALLARD’S HIGH-RISE 48 YEARS LATER
: "The world of High-Rise has accelerated, exceeding its own image, manifesting so thoroughly the fiction wears thin and reality begins to flicker at its edge." (ANDREW F. SULLIVAN, 4/19/23, CrimeReads)
-ESSAY: How Did a Censored Writer from the 1970s Predict the Future with Such Uncanny Accuracy?
: 50 years ago, J.G. Ballard anticipated everything from Instagram to Netflix binging (Ted Gioia, 5/24/21, Culture Notes of an Honest Broker)
-REVIEW: of Selected Non-Fiction: 1962-2007 by J.G. Ballard, edited by Mark Blacklock.
(REdmund ordon, London Review of Books)
-REVIEW: of The Crystal World by JG Ballard
(James Wallace Harris, Classics of Science Fiction)
Empire of the Sun
(1984) -
J. G. Ballard
(11/15/1930 -4/19/2009)
(Grade:A+)
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