Tag: J. G. Ballard
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D. Harlan Wilson’s excellent book on J. G. Ballard
Book Review by Bill Ectric D. Harlan Wilson has made a literary mark in the field of cultural theory, focusing on the loss of humanity in the inescapable rush of accelerating technology, with books like Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction and Cultographies: They Live. While his fiction tends to be disorienting (a trait his…
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The Persistence of J. G. Ballard
I was perusing the archives on one my favorite blogs, Literary Kicks, and found this article about J. G. Ballard from 2002. It caught my attention when I read that, “Among his influences Ballard counts such artists as Dali, Magritte, and Ernst, and he considers William Burroughs to be one of the most important authors of the last…
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We Chose to Put a Man on the Moon
Gary Westfahl has written an intriguing essay on the science fiction of J. G. Ballard. Here are a couple of excerpts to whet your appetite: “The question that should be haunting science fiction is: why did Ballard get it right, while all of the other science fiction writers were getting it wrong? Why did their apparently logical and well-grounded predictions about…