J. G. Ballard

...it - hard. (Read Lee-Young Li's poem "Immigrant Picnic".) The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, by J.G. Ballard, hardcover, 1,216 pages, W.W. Norton & Co., list price: $35 Squeezing together a...

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...for which it had waited for so many centuries. Reprinted from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard Copyright © 2009 by the Estate of J.G. Ballard. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. NPR...

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...for our four-wheeled needs to flow, mankind has crafted some pretty amazing stuff. Here's ten of our more mind-blowing efforts. In J.G. Ballard's 1974 novel Concrete Island, a wealthy man becomes stranded (his Jaguar breaks down, natch) in a...

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...Quartet in the Seventies, and created a literary agency in Japan in 1979, where he brought English language writers such as JG Ballard, John Updike and Helen Fielding to a Japanese audience. The one thing he could never sell in Japan was...

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Filming is now due to start again next spring with G�rard Depardieu, Michael Palin and Depp variously mooted for the cast. High Rise, J G Ballard's novel, was nearly made into a film directed by Nicolas Roeg in the 1970s but it fell through...

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...team: Early on when we were discussing themes and motifs to explore in "Synth Britannia" the topic of JG Ballard came up in conversation. … The world Ballard described in books like "Crash" and "Concrete Island" felt like a dystopian vision...

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...a drug addict, a plagiarist, and a mystic humbug, whose wrecked career left nothing but a handful of magical early poems. " J G Ballard's Crash (1973) was an "outstanding, outrageous work, years ahead of its time, if there could ever be a...

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...was describing the suburbs as "a kind of scum, churning against the walls of the city… one of the greatest evils of the century". Even J G Ballard, who lived in Shepperton for most of his writing life, thought them "the death of the soul".

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...a great sci-fi film since The Matrix. And there hasn't been a memorable movie about the perils of using public transport since Speed. JG Ballard adaptations Weird-female-friendship movies Puppet action Team America: World Police was a...

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...space." There are no ray guns and bug-eyed monsters in the nearly 1,200 pages of "The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard." Instead, Ballard's stories are, in his own words, "mental explorations, evocative journeys in the mind." Little...

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