JG Ballard - 1930-2009


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JG Ballard - 1930-2009

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Below is a quote from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/20 ... _obituary/
JG Ballard, self-confessed visionary of "the psychology of the future" and author of works such as Crash and Empire of the Sun, died on Sunday morning after a long illness. He was 78.

Ballard outgrew the 'cult author' tag to cross over into the mainstream. His novels were widely read, beyond the boundaries of the oft-derided science fiction genre. His popularity and the post-modernist themes of his work attracted critical acclaim and bestseller status. He is also rightly recognised as having predicted many of the themes of modern urban life in his dark, dystopian images of the present and near-future...
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:(

I've only read his Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women, that I recall.
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Ohhh. Man. Ive read a lot of his works. He just published book II of an autobiography last year (that was started with Empire of the Sun). This guy was the lead of the Brits who picked up SF after the near total collapse at the end of the fifties. I did not even know that he was ill.
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The Drowned World and Crash were both great. That's really a shame. :(
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Sad to see another great one go :(

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Never read anything by Ballard, but I did see Cronenberg's adaptation of Ballard's novel Crash. Definitely a memorable story.
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I saw that. I don't remember anything except the kinky sex. Was there something besides the kinky sex? :(
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SandChigger wrote:I saw that. I don't remember anything except the kinky sex. Was there something besides the kinky sex? :(
Yes. Crashes that led to kinky sex.
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