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J.G. Ballard


Born
in Shanghai, China
November 15, 1930

Died
April 19, 2009

Genre
Science Fiction, Fiction

Influences
William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Salvador Da ...more


James Graham "J. G." Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories (or "condensed novels") such as The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which drew closer comparison with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Burroughs. In 1973 the highly controversial novel Crash was published, a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism; the protagonist becomes sexually arous ...more

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High-Rise
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Empire of the Sun
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Cocaine Nights
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“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard
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“Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
― J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise
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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
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The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages, 1969
 
  61 votes, 21.6%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  30 votes, 10.6%

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard, 351 pages, 1984
 
  23 votes, 8.2%

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, 256 pages, 1927
 
  21 votes, 7.4%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pages, 1990
 
  21 votes, 7.4%

 
  20 votes, 7.1%

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 318 pages, 1987
 
  12 votes, 4.3%

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen, 372 pages, 1948
 
  7 votes, 2.5%

 
  7 votes, 2.5%

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