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The adjective "Ballardian", defined as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in JG Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments", has been included in the Collins English Dictionary. ^[1] This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ...

Biography

Shanghai

Ballard's father was a chemist at a Manchester-headquartered textile firm, the Calico Printers Association, and became chairman and managing director of its subsidiary in Shanghai, the China Printing and Finishing Company. Ballard spent his early childhood in and around the Shanghai International Settlement, an area under foreign control and dominated by American cultural influences. He was sent to the Cathedral School in Shanghai. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ballard's family were forced to temporarily evacuate their suburban home and rent a house in downtown Shanghai to avoid the shells fired by Chinese and Japanese forces. A chemist pours from a round-bottom flask. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... “fabric” redirects here. ... In business, a subsidiary is a company controlled by another company or corporation. ... This article or section needs to be wikified. ... Combatants China Japan Commanders Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, Xue Yue, Bai Chongxi, Mao Zedong, Peng Dehuai Hirohito, Hideki Tojo, Kotohito Kanin, Matsui Iwane, Hajime Sugiyama, Shunroku Hata, Toshizo Nishio, Yasuji Okamura, Umezu Yoshijiro, Fumimaro Konoe Strength 58,600,000 4,100,000...

After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese occupied the International Settlement. In early spring 1943 they began interning Allied civilians, and Ballard was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center with his parents and younger sister. He spent over two years, the remainder of World War II, in the internment camp. These experiences formed the basis of Empire of the Sun, although Ballard exercised considerable artistic licence in writing the book (notably removing his parents from the bulk of the story). ^[2][3] This article is about the actual attack. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

It is often supposed that Ballard's exposure to the atrocities of war at an impressionable age explains the apocalyptic and violent nature of much of his fiction.^{[4][5] [6]} Martin Amis wrote that Empire of the Sun "gives shape to what shaped him." ^[5] However, Ballard's own account of the experience is more nuanced: "I don't think you can go through the experience of war without one's perceptions of the world being forever changed. The reassuring stage set that everyday reality in the suburban west presents to us is torn down; you see the ragged scaffolding, and then you see the truth beyond that, and it can be a frightening experience." (Livingstone 1996) But also: "I have—I won't say happy—not unpleasant memories of the camp. [...] I remember a lot of the casual brutality and beatings-up that went on—but at the same we children were playing a hundred and one games all the time!" (Pringle 1982) Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is an English novelist. ...

England and Canada

In 1946, after the end of the war, Ballard came to England with his mother and sister. They lived in the West Country outside Plymouth, and he attended The Leys School in Cambridge. After a couple of years his mother and sister returned to China, rejoining Ballard's father, and leaving Ballard to live with his grandparents when not boarding at school. In 1949 he went on to study medicine at King's College, Cambridge, with the intention of becoming a psychiatrist. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The West Country is an informal term for the area of south-western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region. ... , Plymouth (Cornish: ) is a city of 243,795 inhabitants (2001 census) in the south-west of England, or alternatively the West Country, and is situated within the traditional and ceremonial county of Devon at the mouths of the rivers Plym and Tamar and at the head of one of the... The Leys School Stamp Building (formerly East House) (right) and Headmasters house(left) with the school chapel behind The Leys School is a co-educational British public school (privately funded and independent) - it is a boarding and day school for over 520 pupils aged between 11 and 18 years. ... Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... In the United Kingdom, medical school generally refers to a department within a university which is involved in the education of future medical practitioners. ... Full name The King’s College of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Cambridge Motto Veritas et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College(s) New College, Oxford Provost Prof. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine dealing with the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of the mind and mental illness. ...

At university Ballard was writing avant-garde fiction heavily influenced by psychoanalysis and surrealist painters. At this time he wanted to become a writer as well as pursue a medical career. In May 1951, when Ballard was in his second year at King's, his short story "The Violent Noon" (a Hemingwayesque pastiche written to please the jury) won a crime story competition and was published in the student newspaper Varsity. A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods based on the work of Sigmund Freud. ... Max Ernst. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic genre. ... Varsity is the older of Cambridge Universitys main student newspapers (The Cambridge Student is the other, younger, one). ...

Encouraged by the publication of his story, and realizing that clinical medicine would not leave him time to write, Ballard abandoned his medical studies in 1952 and went to the University of London to read English Literature. However, he was asked to leave at the end of the year. Ballard then worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency and as an encyclopaedia salesman. He kept writing short fiction, but found it impossible to get published. Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. ... The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... A copywriter is a person who writes text, or copy, for clients. ... An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion) for its clients. ...

In 1953 Ballard joined the RAF, and was sent to the RCAF flight-training base in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. There he discovered science fiction in American magazines. While in the RAF he also wrote his first science fiction story, "Passport to Eternity", as a pastiche and summary of the American SF he had read. The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was the air force of Canada from 1924 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Forces. ... Location of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Moose Jaw is a city in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada on the Moose Jaw River 71 km west of Regina. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Oct. ...

Ballard left the RAF in 1954 after two years, and returned to England. In 1955 he married Helen Mary Matthews and settled in Chiswick. Their first child (of three) was born in 1956, and his first published science fiction story, "Prima Belladonna", was printed in the December issue of New Worlds that year. The editor of New Worlds, Edward J. Carnell, would remain an important supporter or Ballard's writing, and would publish nearly all of his early stories. Chiswick (IPA pronunciation: ) is a district of West London, covering the eastern part of the London Borough of Hounslow. ... New Worlds was a British Science Fiction Magazine which was first published professionally in 1946. ... John Carnell (1912-1972) British science fiction editor known for editing New Worlds in 1946 then from 1949 to 1963. ...

From 1957 Ballard worked as assistant editor on Chemistry and Industry, a scientific journal. His interest in art led to his involvement in the emerging Pop Art movement, and in the late fifties he exhibited a number of collages that represented his ideas for a new kind of novel. Ballard's avant-garde inclinations did not sit comfortably in the science fiction mainstream of the time, which held attitudes he considered philistine. Briefly attending the 1957 Science Fiction Convention in London, Ballard left disillusioned and demoralized, and did not write another story for a year. By the late sixites, however, he had become an editor of the avant-garde Ambit Magazine, which was more in keeping with his aesthetic ideals. Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered pop art. ... A collage composed of magazine articles and pictures Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Science fiction conventions are gatherings of the community of fans (called science fiction fandom) of various forms of speculative fiction including science fiction and fantasy. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The perimeter is the distance around a given two-dimensional object. ...

Full-time writing career

In 1960 Ballard moved with his family to Shepperton, outside London. Finding that commuting to work did not leave him time to write, Ballard decided he had to make a break and become a full-time writer. He wrote his first novel, The Wind from Nowhere, over a two-week holiday simply to gain a foothold as a professional writer, not intending it as a "serious novel" (in books published later, it is omitted from the list of his works). When it was successfully published in January of 1962, he quit his job at Chemistry and Industry, and from then on supported himself and his family as a writer. Map of Shepperton (from OpenStreetMap) Shepperton is a small town in Surrey in the borough of Spelthorne, in England. ... The Wind from Nowhere cover. ...

Later that year his second—breakthrough—novel, The Drowned World, was published. It established his stature as an exciting science fiction writer in the fledgling New Wave movement. Collections of his stories started getting published, and Ballard delivered more, with frantic productivity, while pushing to expand the scope of acceptable material for science fiction with such stories as "The Terminal Beach". In contrast to much post-apocalyptic fiction, J.G. Ballard’s 1962 science fiction novel The Drowned World features a central character who, rather than being disturbed by the end of the old world, is enraptured by the chaotic reality that has come to replace it. ... New Wave science fiction was characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously literary or artistic sensibility previously comparatively alien to the science fiction aesthetic. ...

In 1964, Ballard's wife Mary died of pneumonia, leaving him to raise their three children by himself. (The autobiographical novel The Kindness of Women gives a different, apparently fictional account of her death.) After this profound shock, Ballard began in 1965 to write the stories that would become The Atrocity Exhibition, while continuing to produce stories within the science fiction genre. Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ... The Kindness of Women is a novel by J.G. Ballard. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Cover for the first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition. ...

The Atrocity Exhibition proved controversial (it was the subject of an obscenity trial, and in the United States, publisher Doubleday destroyed almost the entire print run before it was distributed), but it also marked Ballard's breakthrough as a literary writer. It remains one of his seminal works, and was filmed in 2001. Doubleday is one of the largest book publishing companies in the world. ... Literary fiction is a somewhat uneasy term that has come into common usage since around 1970, principally to distinguish serious fiction from the many types of genre fiction and popular fiction. ...

One chapter of The Atrocity Exhibition is titled "Crash!", and in 1970 Ballard organized an exhibition of crashed cars at the New Arts Laboratory, appropriately called "Crashed Cars". Crashed automobiles were displayed without commentary, inspiring vitriolic responses and vandalism. (Ballard 1993) In both the story and the art exhibition, Ballard explored the sexual potential of car crashes, a preoccupation which culminated in the novel Crash in 1973. Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973. ...

The main character of Crash is called James Ballard and lives in Shepperton (though other biographical details do not match the writer), and curiosity about the relationship between the character and his author gained fuel when Ballard suffered a serious automobile accident shortly after completing the novel. (Ballard 1993) Regardless of real-life basis, Crash proved just as controversial as The Atrocity Exhibition, especially when it was later filmed by David Cronenberg. David Cronenberg at Cannes 2002 David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born May 15, 1943[1]) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. ...

Although Ballard continued to write interesting stories through the seventies and eighties, his breakthrough into the mainstream came only with Empire of the Sun, based on his years in Shanghai and the Lunghua internment camp. It established Ballard's name in the literary mainstream, although the books that followed failed to achieve the same degree of success. Empire of the Sun was filmed by Steven Spielberg in 1987, starring a young Christian Bale as Jim (Ballard). Ballard himself appears briefly in the film, and he has described the experience of seeing his childhood memories reenacted and reinterpreted as bizarre.^[7][3] This article is about the 1984 novel and its 1987 film adaptation. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Empire of the Sun is a 1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, and Miranda Richardson. ... Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale; born 30 January 1974) is a Welsh-born English[2][3] method actor who is known for his roles in the films American Psycho, Shaft, Equilibrium, The Machinist, Batman Begins and The Prestige, among others. ...

Ballard continues to write (of his recent novels, Cocaine Nights was particularly well received), and also contributes occasional journalism and criticism to the British press. His latest book as of 2006 is Kingdom Come. Cocaine Nights is a novel by J. G. Ballard (ISBN 1582430179). ...

Dystopian fiction

Those who know Ballard from his autobiographical novels will not be prepared for the subject matter that Ballard most commonly pursues, as his most common genre is dystopia. His most celebrated early novel is Crash, in which cars symbolise the mechanisation of the world and man's capacity to destroy himself with the technology he creates; and the characters (the protagonist, called Ballard, included) become involved in a violent obsession with the psychosexuality of car crashes. Ballard's disturbing novel was turned into a controversial, and also disturbing, film by David Cronenberg. This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ... Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973. ... David Cronenberg at Cannes 2002 David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born May 15, 1943[1]) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. ...

Particularly revered among Ballard's admirers is his short story collection Vermilion Sands, set in an eponymous desert resort town inhabited by forgotten starlets, insane heirs, very eccentric artists, and the merchants and bizarre servants who provide for them. Each story features some especially exotic technology, such as poetry-composing computers, orchids with operatic voices and egos, phototropic self-painting canvasses, and so on. In key with Ballard's central themes, these tawdry and weird technologies serve to bring out dark and hidden desires and schemes in the human castaways that occupy Vermilion Sands, often with psychologically grotesque and physically fatal results. In his introduction to Vermilion Sands, Ballard cites this as his favorite collection. First Italian edition of the collection Vermilion Sands is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1971, which contains the following stories: Prima Belladonna (1956) The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) Cry Hope, Cry Fury! (1966) Venus Smiles (1957) Studio 5, The Stars (1961) The Cloud... First Italian edition of the collection Vermilion Sands is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1971, which contains the following stories: Prima Belladonna (1956) The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) Cry Hope, Cry Fury! (1966) Venus Smiles (1957) Studio 5, The Stars (1961) The Cloud... First Italian edition of the collection Vermilion Sands is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1971, which contains the following stories: Prima Belladonna (1956) The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) Cry Hope, Cry Fury! (1966) Venus Smiles (1957) Studio 5, The Stars (1961) The Cloud...

In a similar vein, his collection Memories of the Space Age explores many varieties of individual and collective psychological fallout from — and initial deep motivation for — the American space exploration boom of the 1960s and 1970s. Memories of the Space Age is a collection of Science fiction stories by author J.G. Ballard. ...

In addition to his novels, Ballard has made extensive use of the short story form. Many of his earliest published works in the 1950s and 1960s were short stories. This article is in need of attention. ...

Television

On December 13th 1965 BBC Two screened an adaptation of the short story "Thirteen to Centaurus" directed by Peter Potter. The one hour drama formed part of the 'Out of the Unknown' season and starred Donald Houston as Dr Francis and James Hunter as Abel Granger. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Donald Houston (November 6, 1923 — October 13, 1991) was an impassive, hardworking Welsh actor whose first two films - The Blue Lagoon (1949) with Jean Simmons, and A Run for Your Money (1949) with Sir Alec Guinness - were highly successful. ...

In 2003, Ballard's short story "The Enormous Space" (first published in the Science fiction magazine Interzone in 1989, subsequently printed in the collection of Ballard's short stories War Fever) was adapted into an hour-long television film for the BBC entitled Home by Richard Curson Smith, who also directed it. The plot follows a middle class man who chooses to abandon the outside world and restrict himself to his house, becoming a hermit. Interzone is a British science fiction and fantasy magazine, published since 1982. ... War Fever is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1990 by Collins. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Home is an paranoid, comic, hour-long television film made by the BBC and directed by Richard Curson Smith. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... For other uses, see Hermit (disambiguation). ...

Critique and influence of his fiction

Ballard's fiction is sophisticated, often bizarre, and a constant challenge to the cognitive and aesthetic preconceptions of his readers. As Martin Amis has written: "Ballard is quite unlike anyone else; indeed, he seems to address a different - a disused - part of the reader's brain." Because of this tendency to upset readers in order to enlighten them, Ballard does not enjoy a mass-market following, but he is recognized by critics as one of the UK's most prominent writers. He has been influential beyond his mass market success; he is cited as perhaps the most important forebear of the cyberpunk movement by Bruce Sterling in his introduction to the seminal Mirrorshades anthology. Also, his parody (or psychoanalysis) of American politics, the pamphlet "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" (subsequently included as a chapter in his experimental novel The Atrocity Exhibition), was photocopied and distributed by pranksters at the 1980 Republican National Convention. A bookseller in Brighton had been prosecuted for selling this pamphlet in the early 1970s, under UK obscenity legislation. Berlins Sony Center reflects the global reach of a Japanese corporation. ... Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. ... Mirrorshades are sunglasses with a special coating on the outside of the lenses to make them appear like small mirrors, although the wearer just sees things in a brown or grey tinted point of view, usually. ... Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan is a short work by dystopian English author J.G. Ballard, first published as a pamphlet by the Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton, in 1968. ... Cover for the first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition. ... The 1980 Republican National Convention was held in july,1980 in Detroit, Michigan ... Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ... Obscenity in Latin obscenus, meaning foul, repulsive, detestable, (possibly derived from ob caenum, literally from filth). The term is most often used in a legal context to describe expressions (words, images, actions) that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time. ...

According to Brian McHale, The Atrocity Exhibition is an essentially post-modern text operating with sci-fi topoi.^[8] Brian McHale is an American literary theorist who reviews a range of fiction and poetics, mainly those relating to postmodernism. ... Cover for the first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition. ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ...

In Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard hailed Crash as the first great novel of the universe of simulation. Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French), published in 1981, is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard. ... Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) (IPA pronunciation: [1]) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. ... Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973. ...

Lee Killough directly cites his seminal Vermilion Sands short stories as the inspiration for her collection "Aventine", also a backwater resort for celebrities and eccentrics where bizarre or frivolous novelty technology facilitates the expression of dark intents and drives. Lee Killough is a name used by two noteworthy people: Karen Lee Killough, American writer Lee Killough, programmer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... First Italian edition of the collection Vermilion Sands is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1971, which contains the following stories: Prima Belladonna (1956) The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) Cry Hope, Cry Fury! (1966) Venus Smiles (1957) Studio 5, The Stars (1961) The Cloud... The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills that ancient Rome was built on. ...

Ballard has also had a noticeable influence on popular music, where his work has been used as a basis for lyrical imagery, particularly amongst British post-punk groups. Examples include albums such as Metamatic by John Foxx, various songs by Joy Division (most famously "The Atrocity Exhibition" from Closer) and "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal. Trevor Horn credits Ballard's story, "The Sound-Sweep," with inspiring The Buggles' hit, "Video Killed the Radio Star." Additionally, the Buggles' second album included a song entitled "Vermillion Sands." This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ... The Normal is the recording artist name used by English film editor Daniel Miller, who is best known as the founder of the record label Mute Records. ... Trevor Charles Horn, born July 15, 1949 in Durham, England, is a British pop music record producer, songwriter and musician. ... Buggles (the official version of the band name, used on their albums, singles, and publicity material, omits the prefix The) were a New Wave band formed in 1977 consisting of Trevor Horn, born 1949 in Durham (bass guitar, guitar, percussion, and vocals), Geoff Downes, born 1952 in Stockport, Cheshire (percussion... Video Killed the Radio Star is a New Wave song released in 1979 by the British group Buggles that celebrates the golden days of radio. ...

First edition of one of the tales eventually included in The Atrocity Exhibition (1969).

Jawbox frontman J. Robbins has cited J.G. Ballard as his favorite writer, and used the phrase "concrete island" in the Jawbox song "Grip." The Jawbox song "Motorist" is also heavily influenced by the Ballard novels, Crash and Concrete Island. Image File history File links New_worlds_assassination. ... Cover for the first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition. ... Jawbox was a punk rock/indie rock/post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C.. Its members were J. Robbins (vocals/guitar), Bill Barbot (guitar), Kim Coletta (bass guitar), and Adam Wade & Zach Barocas (drums). ... J. Robbins is an American rock music artist. ... Look up crash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Concrete Island is a novel by J. G. Ballard (ISBN 031242034X). ...

On their PXR5 album, the English psychedelic rock band Hawkwind included the song "High Rise", inspired by both the novel of the same name, and by the short story "The Man on the 99th Floor". 1979 release by the band Hawkwind Track listing Death Trap (Brock, Calvert) Jack of Shadows (Brock, Calvert, House, King) Uncle Sams on Mars (Brock, Calvert, House, King) Infinity (Brock, Calvert) Life Form (Brock) Robot (Brock, Calvert) High Rise (Calvert, House) P.X.R.5 (Brock, Calvert) Category: ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

UK Dubstep pioneer Kode9, founder of the influential Hyperdub label, cites Ballard's fiction as a main musical influence as well. Dubstep is a genre of electronic music which has its roots in the UK garage scene in London in the early 2000s. ... Hyperdub London based record label that specialises in dubstep. ...

The 2007 album by the English 'new rave' act the Klaxons takes its name from Ballard's collection of short stories "Myths of the Near Future" Klaxons are an English band, based in London. ... Myths of the Near Future, a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, contains the following stories: Myths of the Near Future Having a Wonderful Time A Host of Furious Fancies Zodiac 2000 News from the Sun Theatre of War The Dead Time The Smile Motel Architecture The Intensive Care...

Bibliography

Novels

• The Wind From Nowhere (1961)
• The Drowned World (1962)
• The Burning World (1964) (also The Drought) (1965)
• The Crystal World (1966)
• The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) (also Love and Napalm: Export USA) (1972)
• Crash (1973)
• Concrete Island (1974)
• High Rise (1975)
• The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
• Hello America (1981)
• Empire of the Sun (1984, fictionalised autobiography of his adolescence in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai)
• The Day of Creation (1987)
• Running Wild (1988)
• The Kindness of Women (1991, follow up to Empire Of The Sun covering his early adulthood)
• Rushing to Paradise (1994)
• Cocaine Nights (1996)
• Super-Cannes (2000)
• Millennium People (2003)
• Kingdom Come (2006)

The Wind from Nowhere cover. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In contrast to much post-apocalyptic fiction, J.G. Ballard’s 1962 science fiction novel The Drowned World features a central character who, rather than being disturbed by the end of the old world, is enraptured by the chaotic reality that has come to replace it. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Drought, also known as The Burning World, is a science fiction novel by British author J. G. Ballard. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... The Drought, also known as The Burning World, is a science fiction novel by British author J. G. Ballard. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... One of the earlier works by J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (1966, ISBN 0374520968) tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Cover for the first edition of The Atrocity Exhibition. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Concrete Island is a novel by J. G. Ballard (ISBN 031242034X). ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... A high-rise is a tall building or structure. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Unlimited Dream Company is a novel by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1979. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Hello America is a science fiction novel by J G Ballard, first published in 1980. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the 1984 novel and its 1987 film adaptation. ... This article is about the year. ... For other uses, see Shanghai (disambiguation). ... The Day of Creation is a 1987 novel by J.G. Ballard. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Running Wild is a novella by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1988 by Hutchinson. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... The Kindness of Women is a novel by J.G. Ballard. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Rushing to Paradise is a novel by J. G. Ballard. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Cocaine Nights is a novel by J. G. Ballard (ISBN 1582430179). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Super-Cannes is a novel published in 2000 by J. G. Ballard. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Millenium People is a novel by J. G. Ballard published in 2003. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Short story collections

• The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962)
• Billennium (1962)
• Passport to Eternity (1963)
• The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (1963)
• The Terminal Beach (1964)
• The Impossible Man (1966)
• The Venus Hunters (1967)
• The Overloaded Man (1967)
• The Disaster Area (1967)
• The Day of Forever (1967)
• Vermilion Sands (1971)
• Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971)
• Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories (1976)
• The Best of J. G. Ballard (1977)
• The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (1978)
• Myths of the Near Future (1982)
• The Voices of Time (1985)
• Memories of the Space Age (1988)
• War Fever (1990)
• The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (2001)

Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Unix Billennium is the point in time represented by a Unix time value of 109: 01:46:40 UTC on September 9, 2001. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Passport to Eternity, a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, contains the following stories: The Man on the 99th Floor Thirteen to Centaurus Track 12 The Watch Towers A Question of Re-Entry Escapement The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista The Cage of Sand Passport to Eternity ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Four-Dimensional Nightmare is a collection of science fiction short stories by J. G. Ballard, published in 1963 by Victor Gollancz. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Terminal Beach (no ISBN) is a collection of science fiction short stories by J. G. Ballard, published in 1964. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... The Impossible Man and other Stories Contents: The Drowned Giant The Reptile Enclosure The Delta at Sunset Storm-Bird, Storm-Dreamer The Screen Game The Day of Forever Time of Passage The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon The Impossible Man ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... The Venus Hunters is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1980 as a paperback by Panther Books, and reprinted as a hardback in 1986 by Victor Gollancz. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The Overloaded Man is a collection of stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1967 as a paperback by Panther Books. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The Disaster Area, a collection of Short Stories by J. G. Ballard contains the following stories: Storm-bird, Storm-dreamer The Concentration City The Subliminal Man Now Wakes the Sea Minus One Mr F. is Mr F. Zone Of Terror Manhole 69 The Impossible Man Categories: | ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The Day of Forever, a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, contains the following stories: The Day of Forever Prisoner of the Coral Deep Tomorrow is a Million Years The Man on the 99th Floor The Waiting Grounds The Last World of Mr Goddard The Gentle Assassin The Sudden... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... First Italian edition of the collection Vermilion Sands is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1971, which contains the following stories: Prima Belladonna (1956) The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) Cry Hope, Cry Fury! (1966) Venus Smiles (1957) Studio 5, The Stars (1961) The Cloud... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard published in 1976. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Myths of the Near Future, a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, contains the following stories: Myths of the Near Future Having a Wonderful Time A Host of Furious Fancies Zodiac 2000 News from the Sun Theatre of War The Dead Time The Smile Motel Architecture The Intensive Care... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... The Voices of Time is a dystopian science fiction short story by J. G. Ballard. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... Memories of the Space Age is a collection of Science fiction stories by author J.G. Ballard. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... War Fever is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1990 by Collins. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Other

• A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews (1996)

James Graham Ballard (born November 15, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British writer. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

Film Adaptations of J.G. Ballard's Work

• Empire of the Sun (1987) dir. Steven Spielberg
• Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
• The Atrocity Exhibition (2001) dir. Jonathan Weiss

Empire of the Sun is a 1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, and Miranda Richardson. ... Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Crash is a 1996 film written and directed by David Cronenberg. ... David Cronenberg at Cannes 2002 David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born May 15, 1943[1]) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. ...

For Television (BBC)

• Thirteen to Centaurus (1965) dir. Peter Potter
• Home (2003) dir. Richard Curson Smith

References

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External links

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J. G. Ballard

• Ballardian: The World of JG Ballard Current and archival Ballard-related news and information, essays and reviews on Ballard and interviews with Ballard.
• jgballard.com Unofficial site with extensive Ballard links
• JG Ballard with Cronenberg: Crash Site about Crash, and the movie based on the novel.
• J. G. Ballard at www.contemporarywriters.com
• J. G. Ballard at the Open Directory Project
• The Critical Exhibition - JGB's Online Secondary Bibliography
• Entertaining Violence: JGB interview about Millennium People: Spike Magazine
• Flight And Imagination: JGB interview about Super-Cannes: Spike Magazine
• David Cronenberg's Crash: JGB interview about the movie adaptation: Spike Magazine
• Rick McGrath: JG Ballard First Editions Over 200 scans of first and variant editions, including the suppressed 1970 Doubleday edition of The Atrocity Exhibition, plus articles, reviews, bibliographies, marginalia and the usual lineup of obsessive associations
• TLS article: Narratives of the mall Kingdom Come reviewed by M. John Harrison 2006.
• Michael Moorcock on Ballard
• J.G.Ballard and his family on the list of the interment camp at Japan Center for Asian Historical Records