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| J. G. BallardAlso known as: J G Ballard, J.G. Ballad, J C. Ballard, Ballard J. G., Jim-G. Ballard, Jg Et Al Ballard ... (see complete list), James G. Ballard, James G. Ballard, James Gr. Ballard, et al J.G. Ballard, James Graham Ballard, James Grahham Ballard, J. G. Ballard Contribution, J.G.Ballard;(Introduction)AnthonyBurgess | 11,967 | 215 | (3.68) | 0 | 0 |
- Crash 1422 copies, 29 reviews
- Empire of the Sun 1409 copies, 23 reviews
- The Drowned World 696 copies, 11 reviews
- The Atrocity Exhibition 666 copies, 10 reviews
- Super-Cannes 580 copies, 11 reviews
- High Rise 546 copies, 8 reviews
- Cocaine Nights 535 copies, 5 reviews
- Concrete island 447 copies, 3 reviews
- The Crystal World 412 copies, 6 reviews
- The Drought 335 copies, 6 reviews
- The Kindness of Women 332 copies, 4 reviews
- The Day of Creation 324 copies, 5 reviews
- Millennium People 322 copies, 8 reviews
- The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard 293 copies, 1 review
- The Terminal Beach 286 copies, 3 reviews
- Kingdom Come 243 copies, 6 reviews
- The Voices of Time 226 copies, 2 reviews
- Running Wild 222 copies, 3 reviews
- The Unlimited Dream Company 215 copies, 4 reviews
- Vermilion Sands 212 copies, 1 review
- Hello America 202 copies
- Rushing to Paradise 188 copies, 4 reviews
- War Fever 179 copies, 3 reviews
- The Wind from Nowhere 144 copies
- A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews 125 copies, 2 reviews
- Myths of the Near Future 124 copies, 3 reviews
- The Disaster Area 123 copies, 1 review
- Miracles of Life 122 copies, 8 reviews
- The Complete Short Stories 119 copies, 1 review
- Chronopolis 105 copies
- Low-flying Aircraft and Other Stories 84 copies
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J. G. Ballard has 2 past events. (show) Octavia Books: Octavia Books Science Fiction Book Club- Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard (February 14 at 10:30) The second saturday of February, please join our Science Fiction Book Club for coffee and good conversation as they discuss J.G. Ballard's book, Atrocity Exhibition.
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Born and brought up in colonial Shanghai comfort, young James Graham Ballard saw his life change forever when, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour, Japanese forces swept into the city. The three years he spent in an internment camp moulded his view of "a world turned up-side down" and have constantly influenced his fiction.
Back in Britain, he abandoned his medical studies at Cambridge to become a full-time writer, and his first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. As with many of his works, the wanderings of his characters' minds are charted as minutely as the external world they inhabit. The Drought, The Wind from Nowhere and The Crystal World all strengthened his reputation for bleak but beautiful chronicles of a post-Hiroshima age.
After the death of his wife in 1964, Ballard retreated to Shepperton by the River Thames to raise his three children. But if his surroundings were sleepy and suburban, his imagination remained at the cutting edge. When he produced Crash in 1973, legend has it that one publisher marked in her notes, "writer beyond psychiatric help". Crash, dealing with the erotic possibilities of car accidents, was well ahead of its time. Ballard himself called it "the first pornographic book based on technology" and David Cronenberg's film version in 1996 provoked six months' deliberation for the British censor.
Steven Spielberg's lavish production of Empire of the Sun, Ballard's autobiographical account of his childhood, brought the author financial security and public clamour for his earlier works. At this point, Ballard could have easily put down his pen.
Instead, he has continued to chart the struggle of a restless society, one caught between a need for security and a craving for the reckless. His latest novel, Millennium People, once again describes characters drawn to violence through technologically-induced boredom.
He once called himself "an architect of dreams, sometimes nightmares" and his seeming obsession with disaster, depravity and dystopia is not to everyone's taste. But, in this pop-bang throwaway age, JG Ballard remains curious and alert, reminding us, too, that "imagination itself is an endangered species".  | |
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