http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm
I just saw this. I really like Ballard's writing. One of the most creative dystopian authors. Such classics as High-Rise, Concrete Island, The Drowned World, The Crystal World and The Atrocity Exhibition are all classics of bleak SF.
He also wrote two novels which were filmed to great effect:
Empire of the Sun, an account of his childhood experiences in a Japanese POW camp - filmed by Steven Spielberg.
Crash - not the 2004 film by Paul Haggis but the earlier, controversial, David Cronenberg film about people getting sexual kicks from car-crashes.
I will miss his writing a lot.
A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
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Re: A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
He's dead, Jim.
Crash was one freaky film, and Empire of the Sun was beautiful. I haven't read anything by him though, dystopian SF ain't my cuppa.
Crash was one freaky film, and Empire of the Sun was beautiful. I haven't read anything by him though, dystopian SF ain't my cuppa.
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Re: A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
But he leaves his writing for us to continue to appreciate and enjoy.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:I will miss his writing a lot.
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Re: A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
+1Dasein wrote: ... and Empire of the Sun was beautiful.
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Re: A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
I thought he was already dead for some reason.
Sad loss. Great writer.
Sad loss. Great writer.
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Re: A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
It's his next book I will miss. And the one after that.Charlou wrote:But he leaves his writing for us to continue to appreciate and enjoy.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:I will miss his writing a lot.
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Re: A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
He was a very interesting writer. I mainly read his early, surreal SF books such as The Drowned World, which showed me that SF could include a larger range of literary style than I had imagined until then.
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Re: A Sad Loss - J.G.Ballard
I've never read any of his books, but after seeing a piece about him on the news last night, I think it's time I did.
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