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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
3.60 avg rating — 35,933 ratings — published 1975 — 96 editions
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Crash
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Empire of the Sun
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Concrete Island
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The Atrocity Exhibition
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Cocaine Nights
3.57 avg rating — 6,535 ratings — published 1996 — 43 editions
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Super-Cannes
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The Crystal World
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Running Wild
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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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March 2021 New School Classic Poll

 
  22 votes, 23.9%

The Castle by Franz Kafka, 1926, 316 pages
 
  20 votes, 21.7%

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 1950 369 pages
 
  11 votes, 12.0%

Maurice by E.M. Forster, 1971, 256 pages
 
  10 votes, 10.9%

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1915, 147 pages
 
  9 votes, 9.8%

The Door by Magda Szabó, 1987, 262 pages
 
  8 votes, 8.7%

On Photography by Susan Sontag, 1973, 224 pages
 
  7 votes, 7.6%

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, 1962, 198 pages
 
  5 votes, 5.4%

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